Roger Burrows

tandfonline.comSpeculating on Speculation? Thinking Within and Beyond the Mortgage Present a Reply to the Comments on ‘Envisioning Mortgage Futures’This piece replies to some fine scholarship from the five commentators who have taken up the pen in response to our focus article. We take up four themes running through the commentaries: the novel...

tandfonline.comEnvisioning Mortgage FuturesThis paper explores how open banking and algorithmic profiling are reshaping mortgage lending in the UK. Drawing on interviews with lenders, brokers, technology developers and borrowers, it examine...

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Paul Langley

@paullangley.bsky.social

Pleased to contribute a co-authored essay with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social to this project. Also looking forward to reading the rest of the contributions, and participating in debates over FinTech which they spark

Amin Samman@aminsamman.bsky.social

Out now: the new issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social. It's the first of two themed special issues. Part 1 opens with an agenda-setting article on technofinance by the editors and a key essay by Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon on the disappearance of fintech. Check it! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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crawford.anu.edu.auOn Palantirism? A guide for the perplexed | Crawford School of Public PolicyA guide to 'Palantirism': how Palantir's founders' philosophy underwrites its embedding in state and corporate infrastructure.

20 Sept

tandfonline.comAlgorithmic risk and social housing access in EnglandAcross England’s housing system, decisions about access to a home are increasingly mediated by algorithmic risk profiling and, in a small minority of cases, open banking. Social housing is often im...

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17 Sept

autism.org.ukWhy we desperately need to start believing autistic peopleJoey Nettleton Burrows is our Policy and Public Affairs Manager and is autistic. In this blog, he discusses why politicians, the media and the public desperately need to start believing autistic peopl...

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)

@sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

24 Aug

Recent open access article by TASA member Steven Threadgold et al.: Bourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation

journals.sagepub.comBourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation - Steven Threadgold, Beverley Skeggs, Roger Burrows, 2026This article argues that algorithmic, platformed culture has been absorbed into predictive infrastructures that shape access to finance, insurance and housing. ...

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6 Aug

sociologica.unibo.it Sociology and the Politics of AI: The Sovereign Individual Revisited | Sociologica

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Steve Threadgold

@stevethreadgold.bsky.social

31 July

New article out with Bev Skeggs and @rogerjburrows.bsky.social in @culsoc.bsky.social on how cultural consumption data's enrolment into insurance, health, housing and other areas that extends symbolic violence and means we nee to think about culture differently

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1 Aug

journals.sagepub.comBourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation

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8 July

bristol.ac.ukHousing and Urban Studies | School for Policy Studies | University of Bristol

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7 July

francesstreetpress.comtales of the disconnecteda zine of short stories by David Beer Digital life is strange, but we hardly even seem to notice just how strange it is. The Tales Of The Disconnected gathered together here explore the uncanniness…

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7 July

gold.ac.ukLatest news on our London campusAll of the recent news about Goldsmiths students, staff, alumni, research and more. Learn what’s happening at Goldsmiths.

23 June

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Steve Threadgold

@stevethreadgold.bsky.social

19 May

Here's a link to the lectures, most of which are chats with other researchers, for my Algorithm/AI/Data course. I’m hoping it can become somewhat of a public resource too so please send it to anyone you think may be interested in a critical look at our new data driven overlords. 1/2

youtube.comConsumption, Technology and Everyday Life 2026 - YouTube

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Dan McQuillan

@danmcquillan.bsky.social

16 June

If you're interested in this talk but can't make it today, I'll be re-hashing a version with more emphasis on care services for the Newcastle Youth Studies seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9am GMT. Registration here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-resis...

eventbrite.com.auFrom Resisting AI to DecomputingDan McQuillan talks critical AI politics

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social

Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...

goldperc.ukLooking back on PERC - Political Economy Research CentreThe Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

11 June

Any VC/SMT/Council with the resource and even a small modicum of progressive and strategic sensibility would give this a new home.

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social

We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

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Nick Taylor

@ntaylor.bsky.social

11 June

A eulogy from Will here on what we were able to do at PERC, with a handful of staff, a small budget, a willingness to carry furniture when organising events, a brilliant wider network & some amazing students. It was a very special time and place.

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social

We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

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Lawrence Lanahan

@llanahan.bsky.social

26 May

If you, like me, became a data fiend in the 20th century only to become horrified by all things 21st century, I suggest this pairing of The First Measured Century with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co's The Ordinal Society, a fine angle on the second measured century.

isrf.orgDispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline

25 May

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youtu.beThe fascism expert at the heart of Palantir | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depthYouTube video by ABC News In-depth

20 May

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youtube.comConsumption, Technology and Everyday Life 2026 - YouTube

19 May

This is amazing stuff from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social

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The Guardian

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23 Apr

The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all

theguardian.comThe Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us allA fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits

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29 Mar

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29 Mar

arc-nenc.nihr.ac.ukMen’s experiences of chemical attacks on the eyes - ARC

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10 Mar

jobs.ac.ukVice-Chancellor at Goldsmiths, University of LondonApply for the Vice-Chancellor job on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for professional services positions in higher education.

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Hari Kunzru

@harikunzru.bsky.social

28 Feb

Replying to @harikunzru.bsky.social

Some of us have been scared of this since 1991

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Chica Marx

@mckenziewark.bsky.social

14 Feb

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...

equator.orgEpstein Family Values • EQUATORThe billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

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9 Feb

eventbrite.com.auAlgorithmic DwellingDigital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home

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Verso Books

@versobooks.bsky.social

26 Jan

FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

versobooks.comCities Under SiegeCities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

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21 Jan

events.humanitix.comANU School of Sociology Seminar Series: Prof Roger BurrowsANU School of Sociology Seminar series on

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19 Jan

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19 Jan

Study of ‘acid attacks’ in the NE of England.

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13 Jan

mailchi.mpNew on PLATFORM

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Alison Wallace

@alisonwyork.bsky.social

7 Jan

New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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7 Jan

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cbc.caThe movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC RadioWhat do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...

6 Jan

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

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6 Jan

platformspace.netPLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the PerplexedThe rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...

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6 Jan

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tandfonline.comUnderstanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profilingThis paper examines open banking’s (OB) emerging role in digital tenant profiling. We focus on England’s rental market within a changing international context of newly adopted OB frameworks. OB is ...

2 Jan

Why Open Banking is important for housing studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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David Simon

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

31 Dec 2025

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