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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

  • Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

  • The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

  • Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

  • ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

  • What’s the difference between a cult and a community?

  • New Chapter: Growing Up in a World of Platforms

  • The Cambridge approach to social ontology

  • Socialising the machines

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • The Face in the Crowd

  • Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

  • The role of dichotomies in social theory

  • Social listening and reclaiming the future

  • What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

  • The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

  • Proposal for a Concept Lab

  • Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

  • Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

  • Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

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

  • Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

  • The fetishisation of interiority

  • Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

  • Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

  • Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

  • The Surplus of Objects

  • The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

  • The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

  • Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

  • the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

  • Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

  • an introduction to social ontology

  • the centre for social ontology book series

  • Are you a PhD student or early career researcher interested in social ontology?

  • Some brief thoughts about digital social ontology

  • The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology, July 8th in London

  • The Social Ontology of L.S. Lowry

  • Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

  • Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

  • An eclectic account of lay morality and charitable giving in the UK – Feb 17th @SocioWarwick

  • Centre for Social Ontology Seminars: Spring Term 2015 (@SocioWarwick)

  • Centre for Social Ontology seminars (2014/15) @SocioWarwick

  • What sociologists actually do and what social theorists think they should do

  • PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

  • PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

  • PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

  • In defence of ontology

  • PhD Workshop: What’s the Point of Ontology?

  • What is an organisation?

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