• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• How bad will things get? The role of social theory when civilisation is collapsing

• The reification of social change

• The malaise of modernity

• Theorising socio-cultural change: a note on the casual contemptuousness of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst

• The epochal sublime

• The epistemology of apocalypse 

• The acceleration of social theory

• From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

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

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

• Transformative Horizons

• Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

• the centre for social ontology book series

• Reframing Margaret Archer’s critique of habitus

• Subtraction stories and social change

• The temporal horizons of sociology

• We are experiencing a “pre-” that we can’t name yet

• Towards a sociology of endings

• Social Acceleration and Musical Innovation

• Mike Savage on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

• Becoming Who We Are: theorising personal morphogenesis in a changing world

• Inside the Mind of the Republican Party

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

• The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and Cybernetics

• The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and the Financial Crisis

• The Reflexive Imperative and Social Change

• Social Change and Reflexive Guidance