• Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

• The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

• How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

• things I’ve been reading recently #38

• CfP: Co-design Special Issue – Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring

• Call for Papers: “Research Synthesis” and “Big Data in Psychology”

• The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

• The coming big data revolution within higher education

• Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

• Vested interests in ‘openness’

• An interview with Stand Up magazine about social media and fragile politics

• Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

• The screams of ‘post-truth’: the rise and fall of the political commentator

• An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

• Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

• The acceleration of social theory

• The new new left meets the old new left

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

• Ubiquitous drone surveillance 

• From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• Mechanisms of normative change 

• Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

• Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

• CFP: Platform Urbanism

• An attempt to define my research interests

• Defensive Elites

• The rise of the ‘higher education professional’

• The Digital Monad

• An obscenity on the district line

• The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

• CfP: An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

• The aestheticised mode of social theorising

• Sociological micro-fiction

• The fetishisation of interiority

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• CFP: Slow computing: A workshop on resistance in the algorithmic age

• Five thoughts on abstraction

• Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

• The revolving door between Google and government

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• things I’ve been reading recently #37

• Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

• The ascent of the spiralists

• From a cult of youth to a cult of age

• Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

• Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

• Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Elites preparing for disaster

• Online armies at your command

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• The Surplus of Objects

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• things I’ve been reading recently #36

• To Blog or Not to Blog: Research Projects, Centres and Networks

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

• Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• What is Graphic Social Science?

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• things I’ve been reading recently #35

• The dark future of mediatization

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The precursors to curation

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• On the Spiralists

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

• The Political Economy of Student Housing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?