• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• Philosophers as situated in space and time, trying to muddle their way through

• The inner life of behaviourists

• The existential challenge of the post-capitalist condition

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Becoming who we are 

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• The claustrophobia of imminence

• The Face in the Crowd

• The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• The existential challenge of changing tempo

• Fateful moments that might have been

• From homo economicus to homo digitalis

• CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

• ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

• On the Rat Race

• Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

• In defence of the individual

• The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

• Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

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

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

• The fetishisation of interiority

• Conduits for variety

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

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

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Carrying the weight of the world

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation

• The sobered modernist perspective

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• “What do you do?”

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

• on nihilism and hope

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• towards a sociology of human flourishing

• The gaps in which being human happens