• A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• A song about C Wright Mills written by Chat-GPT

• Coaxing the sight and sound back to your life

• On intellectual craft 

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• The Avoidance of the Intellectual

• Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

• Public Sociology and Sociological Writing

• The (un)intelligibility of academics and being ‘a mere journalist’

• Digital scholarship and the tendency of academics to “slip so readily into unintelligibility”

• An early review of the Sociological Imagination (“Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University”)

• John Holmwood on “Sociology’s ‘moments’: C. Wright Mills and the critique of professionalism”

• Les Back on Sociology’s Promise

• C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On


• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination

• #UKRiots and Sociological Imagination