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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

  • The eye-on-the-object look

  • Making time to think

  • Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

  • The intimacy of writing

  • Programming as practice

  • The challenge of being ready to think

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

  • On intellectual craft 

  • Against the notion of ‘craft’: thoughts on the cultural politics of romanticising exploitation

  • How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

  • The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

  • Writing praxes beyond papers and books

  • The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

  • The Promise of the Pivot Format

  • The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

  • tech giants and the possibility of craft

  • the backstory to creative work

  • Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

  • Why you should @readcube to manage your library of papers

  • Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

  • Creativity as Apophatic

  • Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

  • If this works reliably then I want one now

  • 16 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

  • How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

  • How to use @Artefact_Cards for academic writing

  • Some thoughts on sociological writing

  • Stuff I want to find out

  • Reflections on five years spent studying asexuality

  • When writing on the iPad becomes a pleasure rather than a chore

  • “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

  • The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

  • Henry Miller on The Artist and individuality, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

  • When writing is hard

  • Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

  • Improvisation in academic life

  • The dangers of the Kindle: attentive reading vs mining for ideas

  • Wilhelm Reich’s 6 Rules for Creative Sanity

  • “Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind”: Jack Kerouac, creativity and academic writing

  • The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell!

  • Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

  • Videogames and human excellence

  • Some quick thoughts on the sociology of craft

  • The virtues of a daily writing habit

  • Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

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

  • Books, social media and ‘thinking-through-writing’

  • Sociologists and anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing

  • How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy (within the first two weeks)

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