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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The duality of the platform: users and workers

  • From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

  • The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

  • Social media and populism 

  • Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

  • What is platform cooperativism?

  • Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

  • God View

  • Building the cult of airbnb

  • Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

  • Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

  • Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

  • Technology, regulation and disruption

  • Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

  • Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

  • Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

  • Uber as a moral project

  • Micro-tasking political activism

  • Epochal theorising and business bullshit

  • The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

  • Cultural representations of finance 

  • What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

  • “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

  • On Social Acceleration

  • Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

  • The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

  • pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

  • Out trolling the trolls

  • trying to write when you’re triaging

  • some thoughts on the poetics of impact

  • Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

  • Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

  • Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

  • “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

  • The MOOC as a trojan horse

  • The epistemology of democracy’s death

  • Online Harassment

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • The Evisceration of the Human

  • Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

  • Against ‘openness’

  • The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

  • How universities shape the technology developed for them

  • Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

  • The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

  • ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

  • a bleak social theory for bleak times

  • Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

  • Notes on Platform Capitalism

  • The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

  • The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

  • The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

  • Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

  • Discipline and innovate 

  • The self-importance of researchers

  • Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

  • What did I do in 2016?

  • Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

  • What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

  • Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

  • On Teaching Theory

  • The Happy Unemployment of Horses

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 3

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 2

  • The proliferation of books

  • Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

  • Carrying the weight of the world

  • Metrics and the death of imagination

  • The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

  • The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

  • Bounded autonomy in the workplace

  • Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

  • The Climate Agenda of Elites

  • Living with theoretical pluralism

  • The Political Economy of the American South

  • Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

  • Five propositions about #publicsociology

  • What is ‘the literature’?

  • The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

  • Social Media and Public Sociology

  • The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

  • Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

  • No longer praying at the altar of virality

  • A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

  • Chronosolidarity

  • A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

  • A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

  • The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

  • The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

  • The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

  • “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

  • Donald Trump’s Words of Power

  • The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

  • The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

  • Towards a Pirate Sociology

  • When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

  • The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation

  • The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

  • How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

  • Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

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