• Social listening and the black health economy

• On intellectual craft 

• The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

• The dangerous fantasies of defensive elites

• Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

• The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

• Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

• Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

• Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

• Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

• Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

• Using social media as a social theorist

• The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

• The material interests of Big Tech

• Proposal for a Concept Lab

• Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

• Social media and the impact agenda

• What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

• The missing history of the practical intellectuals

• The global fourth estate

• Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

• Trump as a tactician of post-truth

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

• Against university marketing

• Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

• The digital academic as autobiographical actor

• A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

• In defence of the individual

• The (slow) private life of homo academicus

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• Things I learned from trying and failing at #NaNoWriMo

• The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

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

• The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

• There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

• The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

• The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

• Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

• How to trash the political rulebook

• Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

• The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

• How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

• The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

• The coming big data revolution within higher education

• Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

• Vested interests in ‘openness’

• An interview with Stand Up magazine about social media and fragile politics

• Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

• The screams of ‘post-truth’: the rise and fall of the political commentator

• Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

• The acceleration of social theory

• The new new left meets the old new left

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

• Ubiquitous drone surveillance 

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

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

• Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

• An attempt to define my research interests

• Defensive Elites

• The rise of the ‘higher education professional’

• The Digital Monad

• An obscenity on the district line

• The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

• The aestheticised mode of social theorising

• Sociological micro-fiction

• The fetishisation of interiority

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• Five thoughts on abstraction

• Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

• The revolving door between Google and government

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

• The ascent of the spiralists

• From a cult of youth to a cult of age

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

• Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Elites preparing for disaster

• Online armies at your command

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• The Surplus of Objects

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

• Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump