• Collapsing the parameters of our worlds

• Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

• Three weeks, four requests and still no ballot paper 

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• The poor white American abject 

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

• The history of data-as-rhetoric 

• Big data, new skills: how the accelerated academy hinders the interdisciplinary collaboration we need

• Liberation and coercion

• Social Movements and Pseudo-Activity 

• Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

• Yanis Varoufakis on the Parallax Challenge

• The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

• The necessity of selection

• The otherness of animals

• Ethical consumerism as self-exclusion

• Really interesting lecture by @JaneElliott66 on Big Data & the Qual/Quant Divide

• The evacuation of the social by elites 

• Against the notion of ‘craft’: thoughts on the cultural politics of romanticising exploitation

• Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

• The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

• The vexatious fact of society

• The Individualisation of Utopia

• Digital capitalism and concentration of ownership

• Images of the end of capitalism

• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• Jeremy Corbyn as the mirror image of Margaret Thatcher

• We should be very careful about how we construct ‘the public’ in discourses of public engagement

• Three reasons why I believe in Jeremy Corbyn (and some doubts)

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• The Dispositions of the Metricised

• The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• Tony Benn on the Labour Party in 1991

• The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

• The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

• The sobered modernist perspective

• The digital avoidance of difference

• Structural limits to self-control

• The fetishisation of the event 

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• The political significance of the zombie horde

• Home ownership as a psychological rather than economic reality 

• The future of labour in digital capitalism

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• The Return of the Riot

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• The coordinates of the austerity consensus are disintegrating

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell

• The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

• The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• The Idiots Who Make History

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• The ideological function of open data

• Facebook’s advertising campaign

• Institutionalised depoliticisation at the IMF 

• Murmuration

• Ford’s Sociological Department

• What makes the sharing economy go round?

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

• The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

• Transformative Horizons

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Ideas for action from Teela Sanders and @RuthPatrick0

• Credentials, recruitment and big data 

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society

• Making the Most of Social Media

• Three computational sociologies

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

• Boredom and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades