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  • Heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest

  • Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

  • Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

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

  • Who is this describing?

  • Towards a Sociology of the Good Life

  • You must change your life!

  • Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life

  • Five important works of realist social theory being published in 2015

  • Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

  • Richard Hall – Against Educational Technology in the Neoliberal University

  • This is how it works

  • Using fiction to write about your research

  • Using social media to improve the student experience: creating a departmental back channel for undergraduates

  • An unusual e-mail

  • Opening up @soc_imagination as a platform for public engagement

  • 16 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

  • Cruel optimism in #highered

  • From passion to profit: exploitation under neoliberalism, or, how seriously should we take latte art?

  • Are academics very well-educated journalists who write badly but will work for free?

  • Routines and Reflexivity – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

  • The businessman and the fisherman

  • Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

  • This looks great: ‘Weber/Simmel antagonisms’ conference

  • CfP: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life, 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague

  • Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

  • Academia and Identity – When Research meets Activism

  • Call for an Internet Social Forum

  • Inner resources:  the roles of reflexivity, self-awareness and emotional responses in the work of the academic researcher.

  • Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

  • Selling psychopathy in late modernity

  • Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

  • How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

  • The sociological imagination of Ava DuVernay

  • Can relational reflexivity be fractured? (cc @weaver_beth)

  • Interesting research project worth supporting: Social Media in the First-Year Experience

  • How to use @Artefact_Cards for academic writing

  • An eclectic account of lay morality and charitable giving in the UK – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

  • The Lure of Minimalism

  • The Pleasures of Speed

  • The Pleasures of Acceleration

  • An eclectic account of lay morality and charitable giving in the UK – Feb 17th @SocioWarwick

  • Misdirection as technique of governance, or, “it’s student activists attacking freedom of speech, not the state!”

  • Productivity

  • “Excuse me, I’m lost…”

  • What constitutes a civilisational collapse?

  • An eclectic account of lay morality and charitable giving in the UK – Feb 17th @SocioWarwick

  • Ghosts of Sociologists Past in the Accelerated Academy

  • Coping with Acceleration

  • Higher Education and The Temporal Conditions for Critique

  • David Cameron as neoliberal prophet

  • CfP: Thinking Beyond Capitalism, Belgrade, June 24-26, 2015

  • The Relational ‘We’ in Personal Morphogenesis – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

  • The Fetishisation of Intelligence Under Neoliberalism

  • The Relational ‘We’ in Personal Morphogenesis – February 3rd @SocioWarwick

  • An eclectic account of lay morality and charitable giving in the UK – Feb 17th @SocioWarwick

  • Productivity culture, cognitive triage and the pseudo-commensurability of the to-do list

  • The Relational ‘We’ in Personal Morphogenesis – February 3rd @SocioWarwick

  • CfP ‘Emotional Methodologies’ BSA Postgraduate Conference

  • Is it weird that I want to go one of these fake conferences to see what happens at them?

  • The Ethical Economy, w/ Adam Arvidsson – Middlesex University, 17 February 2015

  • Happiness Symposium 4th June 2015 Leicester – Call for Papers

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

  • Centre for Social Ontology Seminars: Spring Term 2015 (@SocioWarwick)

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – January 27th @SocioWarwick

  • Some things about the acceleration of higher education which I would like to understand more than I do

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – January 27th @SocioWarwick

  • The Relational ‘We’ in Personal Morphogenesis – February 3rd @SocioWarwick

  • 2015 Call for Papers about Asexuality

  • Howard Becker and Margaret Archer share a critique of Bourdieu

  • Thanks @OvoEnergy, what a lovely surprise: I’ve used a years worth of gas in 3 months & you want your money

  • The role of reflexivity in explaining rather than describing technological diffusion

  • How to be an academic and deal with stupid & hostile interviewers

  • What is Digital Sociology?

  • Tony Lawson: 90%+ of economics taught in Western world is based on mathematical modelling that is useless

  • What will post-democracy look like?

  • Angry Johnny & the Radio (at the blood bank)

  • W.G. Runciman @SocioWarwick on January 22nd

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on January 13th

  • In frustration at the wilfull destruction of the @wordpress user interface…

  • CfP: Causal Inference and Mechanism-Based Explanation: Friends or Foes?

  • Reframing Media/Cultural Studies in the Age of Global Crisis

  • Sara Ahmed @SocioWarwick: “Brick Walls: On Racism and Other Hard Histories”

  • Call for Papers – International Social Theory Consortium 2015

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on Jan 13th

  • “It fucks with your honor and it teases your head”

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on Jan 13th

  • Social media and ambient intimacy

  • Subtraction stories and social change

  • The most popular posts on my blog in 2014

  • Zeus vs. Thor

  • CfP Risk technologies session at forthcoming Sociology of Risk mid-term

  • Symposium for Early Career Theorists (SECT), Ottawa, Canada, June 2014

  • The cultural representation of our inner life

  • At the risk of sounding obsessive: Žižek is now releasing new books monthly

  • Some thoughts on sociological blogging

  • The value of blogging for part-time PhD students

  • Some thoughts on sociological writing

  • My 25 favourite books (and graphic novels) of 2014

  • Treating ideas with seriousness: @DLittle30 on social media and scholarship

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