The necessity of digital sociology
It’s far from the most sophisticated argument I’ve heard made to this end, but I appreciate the spiritedness with which David Lyon defends the necessity of digital sociology in his Liquid Surveillance...
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Most millennial resists the millennial label
The increasing prominence of the category ‘millennial’ irritates me. I thought this was a sociological objection. As this superb n+1 essay observes, the category builds systemic conditions into the...
View ArticleThe agonistic politics of anonymous
I’ve recently been writing about the fragility of many contemporary movements: the organisational weakness that can emerge from digitally mediated assembly because the logistical labour formerly...
View ArticleLearning to say ‘no’ in academic life
A really interesting reflection by Stuart Elden, editor of Progressive Geographies, about the challenge of saying ‘no’ to requests and invitations. There’s a lot here that people at a much earlier...
View ArticleSocial Media for Academics: Available for Pre-Order!
Available for pre-order now! See here for the cheapest place to buy it online, as well as table of contents & summary.
View ArticleOver-Reach By Unelected Technocrats
This is the debate which the Financial Times says has been prompted by Mark Carney’s intervention on climate change earlier in the week. His point seemed rather incisive to me, observing that “Since...
View ArticleThe Pre-History of the Internet of Things
I had no idea how long this notion had been around for. Blair Newman was a notoriously drug addled technologist (who once tried to claim cocaine as a business expense) into whose failed venture...
View ArticleSocial Media for Academics: Available for Pre-Order!
Available for pre-order now! See here for the cheapest place to buy it online, as well as table of contents & summary.
View ArticleThe Politics of Discretionary Effort
Since first encountering the notion of discretionary effort, I’ve been fascinated by it. This is a definition I found on page one of Google: Discretionary effort is the level of effort people could...
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Liberating yourself from leisure activities
I came across this advert in Dublin advert. On the surface, it’s interesting on a straight forwardly chronopolitical level: with sufficient resources, it’s increasingly possible to outsource tasks for...
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