• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

• The practice of social theory

• Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

• CfP: The New Urgency: The Use(lessness) of Theories in Educational Research

• The enshittification of enshittification

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Andrew Abbott on the practice of theorising

• Stuart Hall: “I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.”

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• Why is learning theory important?

• Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

• The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose

• Barbara Adam on the practice of theorising

• social theorising is more important than social theory