• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• When the populists inspire the ad men

• The disjointed temporality of political life

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

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

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

• Call for abstracts: DQComm2018 The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference

• Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

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

• Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

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

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

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

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• The technocratic oath

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

• The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

• Freeing those who govern from the constraints of democracy

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• The emergence of the ‘informal advisor’ in Washington politics 

• Post-democracy’s no-nonsense purveyors of hard political truths

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• Declining political literacy as a vector of post-democratisation

• The Growth of Political Consultancy

• How depoliticisation and political polarisation co-exist in American politics 

• A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

• RoboPresident: Politics in an Algorithmic World

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• Cognitive triage in politics

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

• The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• Cf Papers & Panels: “Internet & Politics: from Local to Global Politics”

• the new frontier of computational politics

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics