• “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

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• What is Graphic Social Science?

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• The dark future of mediatization

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The precursors to curation

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• On the Spiralists

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• The Political Economy of Student Housing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Time-packing and space-packing

• The causal powers of media

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• What will Macron be like in government?

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

• The technocratic oath

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• Public Engagement and Social Media

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• What is a research technologist?

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• What is a wonk?

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• In defence of ‘curation’

• How to attribute authorship on @soc_imagination?

• “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

• The Ontology of Fake News

• The Impact of Social Theory

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• The new frontiers of monitoring your students

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The cultural significance of blogging

• To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• The ambivalent promise of higher education

• A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

• The Morphology of Public Engagement

• The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Abundance and austerity 

• The myths of academic life

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• The embedded digital economy 

• The Politics of #MeetUp

• The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work