• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• Preparing oneself for a future of enshittified chatbots

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• What does thinking sound like to you?

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• The drama of seeing real thinking

• Making time to think

• Thinking with your feet 

• The challenge of being ready to think

• The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

• Against poststructuralism

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• Where do data scientists come from?

• The generational politics of critical theory

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• Will I survive a nine mile walk and make it home to Molly?

• I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

• When the populists inspire the ad men

• What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

• The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

• The disjointed temporality of political life

• The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

• The claustrophobia of imminence

• The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

• What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

• Hybrid formats for communicating theory

• The Face in the Crowd

• The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

• The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

• Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

• What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

• What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

• The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

• Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

• The existential challenge of changing tempo

• Defending the social at #undisciplining

• When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

• Accelerating into the singularity 

• Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

• Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

• Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking

• Carrying a book around inside your head

• Social media as asshole amplification technology, or, the moral psychology of platform architecture

• Our social media guidelines for @thesocreview #undisciplining conference

• Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

• Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

• The consolation of kitsch

• The original sin of the digital utopians

• Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

• Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

• Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

• The role of dichotomies in social theory

• Expertise and the politics of discipline

• Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

• Barbara Adam on the practice of theorising

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

• Against slow scholarship

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

• Curation as care

• What is platform literacy?

• Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

• When music and fiction mingle

• Fateful moments that might have been

• E-mails outside of office hours

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

• The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

• How do politicians understand their own status?

• A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

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

• From homo economicus to homo digitalis

• Who are we if we can’t protect them?

• What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

• Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

• Digital social science as a meta-field

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

• The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

• ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

• Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

• Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

• The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

• The Sociology of Trolling

• Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

• Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary