• Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

• The Face in the Crowd

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

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

• Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

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

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• The Politics of #MeetUp

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• Social media and populism 

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Social Movements and Pseudo-Activity 

• The limitations of digital technology for repoliticising the depoliticised

• Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

• The hollowness of cultural politics 

• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• The Epistemological Obstacles to Understanding Social Movements

• The fetishisation of the event 

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• The fragility of the occupy movement

• Fragile movements and their political cultures 

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• What is a ‘strike’ and what is a ‘riot’?

• The Return of the Riot

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• Rhetorical rapture-races and contemporary fragile movements 

• Murmuration

• Transformative Horizons

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

• Deleuzian populism

• The threat of pseudo-activity

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• Super-ego individualization

• Digital methods/data activism summer school

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• The Politics of Time and the Possibility of Democracy

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

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

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

• the problem of ‘community’

• CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

• judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

• Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing 

• digital capitalism, fetishistic disavowal and faux-collectives 

• The Collective Subject as Enemy: The Public between Legal Fiction and Political Potentiality

• the dangerous distraction of tech-utopianism

• another special issue: social media and protest identity

• the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism

• on fragile movements

• the agonistic politics of anonymous