A new Migrant Research Institute at Goldsmiths is looking for an academic director www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...

Uncanny timing. New #housing paper arrives online right in the middle of relaxing holiday… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news! @thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

Ah shit, as soon as I posted it I realised I left Mike Masnick ( @mmasnick.bsky.social ) off the list.

Molly White @molly.wiki 404 Media @404media.co Brian Merchant @brianmerchant.bsky.social Doug Rushkoff @rushkoff.com That's definitely an incomplete list, but it will tap you into a larger network of people fighting the good fight. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the replies! 4/

Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Wired Magazine @wired.com Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social Quinn Slobodian www.quinnslobodian.com Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Jonathan Taplin @jttaplin.bsky.social 3/

Gil Duran @gilduran.com Parix Marx @parismarx.com (and their podcast @techwontsave.us ) Jenny Kohn @jennycohn.bsky.social Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Emile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social 2/

Having immersed myself in the 'Dark Enlightenment' topic for some time now, I sometimes wonder how we (regular people who believe in democracy) can fight back. It made me think that it's worth giving a shout-out to some of the people I might term (loosely) 'the resistance'. 1/

Wednesday, October 8, 7pm: ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ • Rebecca Coleman (University of Bristol, UK); Roger Burrows (University of Bristol, UK); Beverley Skeggs (Lancaster University, UK). www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-materi...

We are pleased to announce our online seminar series taking place in the 2nd half of the year with 6 sessions that cover a wide range of important social issues. You can see full details including abstracts and can book Zoom tickets at our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com.au/o/newcastle-...

Why Britain’s fintech dream is faltering - on.ft.com/3SijZuv via @FT

Brilliant

From the Archive: Rowland Atkinson, Simon Parker and Roger Burrows, 'Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London' - examines elite formation in relation to money power within the city of London. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Jesus wept! www.redbubble.com/shop/nick+la...

Nick Land at 35:40. Over 30 years ago. youtu.be/KERCewImfs8?...

I had fun with this one ;) New paper: "Crypto Dad and the primal horde: the gendered psychodynamics of regulating cryptocurrencies" Based on an idea I had back in 2018 - thought it wouldn't take me that long to write 🙄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rest of week sorted

All outputs from Nuffield-funded Algorithmic Risk Profiling in Housing project are now available here: www.york.ac.uk/chp/housing-...

Still worth a read about the NRx shitshow: www.amazon.co.uk/Neoreaction-...

NRx fictionalized from back in the day: williamshawwriter.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/r...

30 years old now: back to the future with Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Blade Runner and other hyperstitions: uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/cy...

Happy to see this open access @urbanstudiesonline.com paper published, which began as a chat with Miklós Dürr at Tyneside Bar in August 2022. We suggest that illiberalism is a facet of global urban life. Part of an upcoming special issue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Don't threaten JD Vance with a good time

👀 Essential video viewing: Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in Gender, Class and Sociology Today – the first in the Sociological Review Foundation’s new Conversations series of online events. youtu.be/kZRlKeboUao?...

I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives. If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:

***Job Alert*** 18-month full-time post-doc. Looking for an experienced qualitative researcher to join our team investigating youth radicalisation online. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... @tasayouth.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

Online personal data increasingly influence access to essential services like housing. Roger Burrows argues for policy interventions to ensure that tenant-referencing systems and other similar platforms promote fairness instead of digital discrimination. www.platformspace.net/home/finding...

Word of the week - revanchism (and likely the next four years).

If you’ve ever published anything then this might be of interest www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI doesn't want you to live there! Read the terrifying piece by @rogerjburrows.bsky.social on @platformspace.bsky.social this week, to see how #algorithmicsystems impact the rental market #eigencapital #rentalmarkets #risk-profiling #tenancy

Finding a place to Live in an Ordinal Society www.platformspace.net/home/finding...

New paper looking at how social class is conceptualised in influential theories of the asset economy. ‘Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism’, Thesis Eleven, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0725...