• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• When LLMs help each other

• Some sociological thoughts on responsible AI

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

• Agentive LLMs and the coming wave of ad tech

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• The humanistic roots of systems theory

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The unintelligent agency of generative AI

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• A Heideggerian reading of Margaret Archer

• Platform socialisation and the possibility of freedom

• Theorising the relationship between data and agency

• The underdetermination of agency by architecture

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

• Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

• The Politics of Agency

• Call for AoIR Tartu panel participants on Algorithmic Agency

• Laziness as a virtue 

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• digital distraction and human concern 

• towards a meta-critique of data science 

• the sociology of the camp

• The Pleasures of Acceleration

• What will post-democracy look like?

• Some thoughts on microfoundations and methodological individualism

• Detaching ‘agency’ and ‘choice’ from voluntarism

• The Incredible Disappearing Agent

• Being Human and Transvaluation (part 1)

• The Reflexive Imperative and Fractured Reflexivity

• Subjects vs subjectification – getting beyond an unhelpful dichotomy (without irritating the Foucauldians too much)

• Reflexivity and ‘drift’