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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Why we need a machine sociology #2: Moltbook is not the thing. Moltbook shows us what the thing is going to look like.

  • Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

  • What if universities no longer existed?

  • Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

  • The impending reality of the digital daemon

  • Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

  • Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

  • On waiting for something to happen

  • The consequences of our expectations

  • How education imagines the future

  • The original sin of the digital utopians

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

  • The fortress city scenario 

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

  • Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

  • Social Media and Social Futures

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