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  • Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

  • A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

  • External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

  • Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

  • Cultural scaffolding for greedy social roles

  • 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

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