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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

  • The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

  • The content density of a cultural producer 

  • Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

  • Denaturalising digital capitalism

  • The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

  • The notion of a ‘playbook’

  • Two modes for becoming who we are 

  • The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

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

  • The precursors to curation

  • Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

  • Digital media and ontological security 

  • Why do I write?

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

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

  • Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

  • CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

  • Abundance and austerity 

  • The myths of academic life

  • Social media and populism 

  • Cultural representations of finance 

  • Cartoons about the impact agenda 

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

  • The epistemology of democracy’s death

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

  • Carrying the weight of the world

  • Living with theoretical pluralism

  • This week: the second Accelerated Academy

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

  • Five propositions about #publicsociology

  • What is ‘the literature’?

  • The Practice of Public Sociology: Sociological Review Early Career Event

  • Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

  • The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

  • Towards a Pirate Sociology

  • When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

  • how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens

  • the 2015/16 @sociowarwick seminar series

  • the question of the human in social theory and social research

  • on fragile movements

  • the agonistic politics of anonymous 

  • The fiction future of faculty: September 16th in Manchester

  • the necessity of digital sociology

  • what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

  • The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

  • the circular tendency in digital capitalism

  • on digital distraction

  • negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

  • who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

  • the best of bezos: the vitriolic putdowns of the amazon ceo

  • the pleasures of knowing where you stand 

  • Closing an open letter

  • imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

  • the politics of noise in historical perspective

  • the antinomies of blairism

  • but on the day I die, I’ll say at least I fucking tried, that’s the only eulogy I need

  • I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.

  • the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

  • The @_ISRF @DigitalSocSci and @BigDataSoc Essay Competition

  • the synchronised society

  • the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

  • and the evilest of nine’s guaranteed to shoot crooked

  • freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking

  • memes are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

  • surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

  • fitter, happier, more productive

  • social engineers have never had so many options at their disposal

  • the micro-politics of noise and the challenge of being-with-others

  • I should’ve found a way out, so everyone can find a way out

  • Relational Flourishing

  • Normal service has been resumed: I will never trying closing my personal blog again

  • Towards a Digital Social Ontology: Free Day Symposium in London on July 8th

  • Are you a PhD student or early career researcher interested in social ontology?

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#16)

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

  • Dear England

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

  • Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline TOMORROW)

  • Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline TOMORROW!)

  • Conlon Nancarrow

  • Consultancy

  • Using social media to destroy academic jargon

  • How to live tweet effectively at academic conferences

  • Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

  • The International Origins of Social and Political Theory

  • Non-conventional academic career paths

  • Is the murky world of internet marketing making me paranoid?

  • How connected is your university to the arms trade?

  • The Potential of Video Essays for Scholarly Communication

  • Legally navigating academic blogging and social media – next Wednesday

  • Two UCU member sacked for allegedly leaking information about the V-C to the press

  • The Responsibilities of Academics

  • The Future’s Not What it Used To Be

  • Data Big and Small: Past, Present and Future

  • Who are you to wave your finger?

  • The challenges to creativity in higher education

  • Register in the next week if you want to ensure a place – Workshop @SocioWarwick: Investigating the Internal Conversation

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