• Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• The Politics of an Uncertain Future

• stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

• Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

• Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.4

• Struggling to put words to an idea

• The narrative significance of ‘unreadability’

• The Bullshit Machine

• The dangers of the Kindle: attentive reading vs mining for ideas

• Richard Dawkins, Twitter and the dangers of thinking aloud

• Heidegger on Thinking 1.2

• Heidegger on Thinking 1.1

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.1