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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Data Power 2019: anyone interested in putting together a digital universities panel?

  • Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

  • The generational politics of critical theory

  • CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

  • The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

  • The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

  • What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

  • What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

  • The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

  • Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

  • Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

  • Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

  • Expertise and the politics of discipline

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • The Political Ontology of Platforms

  • The slow university

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Against slow scholarship

  • Platform capitalism and the future of education

  • What is platform literacy?

  • E-mails outside of office hours

  • Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

  • The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

  • The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

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

  • Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

  • Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

  • The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

  • The Sociology of Trolling

  • Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

  • Using social media as a social theorist

  • The changing character of the academic game

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • On intellectual craft 

  • The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

  • Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

  • Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

  • CfP: Accelerated Academy

  • What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

  • The missing history of the practical intellectuals

  • Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

  • Against university marketing

  • The digital academic as autobiographical actor

  • The (slow) private life of homo academicus

  • Craft and exploitation in the digital university

  • The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

  • Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

  • 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

  • Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

  • An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

  • The acceleration of social theory

  • The rise of the ‘higher education professional’

  • CfP: An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

  • Sociological micro-fiction

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

  • The ascent of the spiralists

  • Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

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

  • Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

  • Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

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

  • What is Graphic Social Science?

  • The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

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

  • On the Spiralists

  • Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

  • The Political Economy of Student Housing

  • What’s the difference between academia and politics?

  • Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

  • Public Engagement and Social Media

  • Anticipatory Urgency

  • The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

  • The ennui of the academic celebrity

  • What is a research technologist?

  • Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

  • Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

  • How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

  • In defence of ‘curation’

  • “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

  • The Polysemic University

  • Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

  • The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

  • The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

  • Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

  • Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

  • Marketing the Digital University

  • The Technology of Intellectual Work

  • Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

  • Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

  • Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

  • The new frontiers of monitoring your students

  • To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

  • The ambivalent promise of higher education

  • A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

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