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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • A Domain of One’s Own

  • The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

  • The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

  • The Morphology of Public Engagement

  • The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

  • The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

  • The myths of academic life

  • An Introduction to the Accelerated Academy: by me and @Filvos

  • Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

  • Epochal theorising and business bullshit

  • The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

  • What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

  • On Social Acceleration

  • The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

  • pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

  • Out trolling the trolls

  • The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

  • some thoughts on the poetics of impact

  • Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

  • Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

  • “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

  • Online Harassment

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • Against ‘openness’

  • The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

  • How universities shape the technology developed for them

  • Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

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

  • A reading list on interdisciplinarity, with a conceptual and digital bias

  • The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

  • Discipline and innovate 

  • The self-importance of researchers

  • Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

  • Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 3

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 2

  • Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

  • A collection of definitions of ‘Impact’

  • The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

  • Bounded autonomy in the workplace

  • Living with theoretical pluralism

  • This week: the second Accelerated Academy

  • Five propositions about #publicsociology

  • What is ‘the literature’?

  • A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

  • A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

  • Towards a Pirate Sociology

  • The Place That Sends You Mad

  • Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

  • The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

  • The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

  • Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • UCU workload survey report

  • Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

  • Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

  • What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

  • Against lists of academic publications

  • A special @thesocreview feature on the rise of the Superstar Professor

  • The threat of pseudo-activity

  • Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

  • Open research projects

  • 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

  • A cautionary tale for independent researchers

  • The Second Accelerated Academy

  • The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

  • Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

  • Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

  • Pace Science: Data, Acceleration, Duration (cc @filvos)

  • How will social media transform #highered?

  • Against the ‘slow professor’

  • Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

  • Slack and Basecamp for Academics

  • The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

  • Writing praxes beyond papers and books

  • The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

  • The Promise of the Pivot Format

  • The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

  • The Feral Interdisciplinarian

  • The Videos from @AcceleratedUni

  • The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

  • Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

  • the peak experiences of intensified work

  • UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

  • Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

  • Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

  • Call for Blog Posts: the Rise of the Superstar Professor

  • Google’s war against latency

  • imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

  • want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

  • Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

  • some thoughts about the accelerated academy

  • Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

  • research as a mode of resistance 

  • Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

  • follow #fastuni for live tweeting from the accelerated academy

  • an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

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