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  • 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?

  • A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

  • 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

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

  • “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

  • Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

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

  • How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

  • Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

  • Why is learning theory important?

  • Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

  • The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose

  • Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

  • The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

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

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

  • social theorising is more important than social theory

  • “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

  • why dehumanisation matters 

  • The International Origins of Social and Political Theory

  • Symposium for Early Career Theorists (SECT), Ottawa, Canada, June 2014

  • Junior Theorist Symposium August 2015, Chicago, IL CFP

  • Realist evaluation, mechanisms and theoretical minimalism

  • Theorizing Roles and Collective Intentionality: Contemporary Perspectives

  • Call for papers – Moments of rupture: Event and negativity in modern thought

  • Workshop: “Feminist ‘turns’ and the political economy of knowledge production”, Univ. Warwick, 28 Feb. 2014, 2-4pm

  • Unification and Fragmentation

  • BSA Early Career Theorists Symposium – Call for Abstracts

  • BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society – Call for papers

  • ‘Theory’ is what happens when common starting-points can no longer be taken for granted

  • What’s a Collective? The Ontology of Groups, Crowds and Crews

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