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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

  • Eudaimonic Bubbles as a normative rather than analytical concept

  • On sociological cynicism about AI

  • John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

  • The socialising role of community

  • This machine eats normativity

  • The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

  • The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

  • On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

  • The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

  • some thoughts on responsibility

  • the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

  • The concept of social institution

  • Cats vs racoons

  • The Paradox of Civility, or, “why is this place filled with such rude assholes?”

  • Against ‘norm circles’

  • The sociology of the quiet zone: norms and public transport

  • Normativity, Social Science and Secularism: Reply to @rightscholar

  • Being Human and Social Normativity

  • “Oh there are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the internet, social change and social integration

  • Why do people believe what they believe? Getting beyond the idea there’s something wrong with people who disagree with us

  • Two new podcasts

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