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  • The epistemic privilege of platforms

  • Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

  • The changing character of the academic game

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • When sociologists meet organised politics

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

  • The new old division at the heart of politics

  • The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

  • 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

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