BOOK PROPOSAL Networked Asceticism

As of winter 2025 I have a book proposal currently in development. Tentatively, it will be entitled Networked Asceticism in Continue reading →

How Digital Social Life Matters

“With great control and depth of exploration, the outstanding contributionof this book is to bring together the seemingly disconnected aspects Continue reading →

Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the Artificial

“In this fine and accessible book, Toews not only presents some of the key themes of Tarde’s sociological program, but Continue reading →

SAANZ 2019 power point – D. Toews

SAANZ is the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand, a wonderful organization that I’ve attended during my recent stay here Continue reading →

The Impositions of Experience

Here is a copy of my conference paper The Impositions of Experience:   Paper prepared for Re-thinking the Human Sciences Continue reading →

Relational Sociology

Under the guidance and nurturance of François Depelteau, Frederic Vanderberghe, and others, the paradigm of relational sociology has been growing Continue reading →

Is Postmodernism still a thing?

Simon Susen argues that postmodernism has had a profound influence on the social sciences.  Read my review of his new Continue reading →

CITAMS (ASA) Award Committee

Recently I was invited to join an award committee for the Communication, Information, Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section of Continue reading →