• Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• AI Slop: Trust, Inequality and Societal Breakdown

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• If you want another reason to dislike Turnitin

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• The unintelligent agency of generative AI

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech

• The similarity between the dot com boom and the present tech bubble

• A few notes the digital aristocracy

• The Platform University

• Platform Surveillance

• Can social media firms remain popular while being perceived as untrustworthy?

• Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

• The governance of platforms

• When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

• Cambridge as a platform city

• Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

• Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

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

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

• What is platform literacy?

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

• Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group

• Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

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

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• The embedded digital economy 

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• The monopoly bias in the sharing economy

• the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

• call for papers: IPP2016 “the platform society” (via @claudiakincaid)

• the coming copyright wars on twitter