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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 2 – Work Futures

  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 1 – Youth Futures

  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Introducing Digital Futures

  • Engineer automaticity in digital capitalism: from Bauman’s gardening state to the synthetic biology corporation

  • The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

  • A masterclass in post-capitalist publishing with Gary Hall

  • “They ruined the world”

  • The collapse of the tech mythology

  • CFP: Intersectional Automations

  • The singular new risks of organisational IT projects

  • The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

  • Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

  • The unraveling of factfulness and the political ontology of representation

  • Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

  • Outflanking platitudes #1: Looking Forwards and Backwards

  • The fragile crowd 

  • The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

  • (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy

  • The weaponisation of epistemology: strategy and tactics

  • An introduction to social media for academics

  • The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

  • Against poststructuralism

  • The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

  • Where do data scientists come from?

  • The generational politics of critical theory

  • Socialising the machines

  • SRA Annual Conference 2018: Adapting to change – where next for social research?

  • CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

  • Films I’ve seen recently

  • Books I’ve been reading

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • Will I survive a nine mile walk and make it home to Molly?

  • Workshop: The Foundations of British Sociology

  • I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

  • When the populists inspire the ad men

  • What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

  • The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

  • The disjointed temporality of political life

  • The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

  • The claustrophobia of imminence

  • The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

  • The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

  • What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

  • Hybrid formats for communicating theory

  • The Face in the Crowd

  • The Sociological Review and the History of the Discipline

  • The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

  • The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

  • Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

  • things I’ve been reading recently #42

  • What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

  • From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

  • What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

  • The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

  • Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

  • The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

  • Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

  • The existential challenge of changing tempo

  • Defending the social at #undisciplining

  • When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

  • Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

  • Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking

  • Carrying a book around inside your head

  • Social media as asshole amplification technology, or, the moral psychology of platform architecture

  • Our social media guidelines for @thesocreview #undisciplining conference

  • Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

  • Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

  • The consolation of kitsch

  • The original sin of the digital utopians

  • Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

  • Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

  • Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

  • The role of dichotomies in social theory

  • Expertise and the politics of discipline

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges

  • The Political Ontology of Platforms

  • Barbara Adam on the practice of theorising

  • Call for Papers – (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age

  • CfP: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Criticisms

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

  • The slow university

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Against slow scholarship

  • Platform capitalism and the future of education

  • Curation as care

  • What is platform literacy?

  • Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

  • Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

  • When music and fiction mingle

  • A quick guide to live tweeting

  • Fateful moments that might have been

  • Looking back through your Twitter history

  • E-mails outside of office hours

  • Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

  • Exercising control over representations of yourself

  • Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

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