'Pandemic Culture' Book Launch & Symposium 17th September Contact All welcome! Register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/pandemic-cul…

Trying out AI social media app Butterflies, in which you create AI characters who interact with each other. Fed in various prompts based on me - wasn't long before it had generated some pretty cutting ageing muso satire. Then I got followed by "Alone Badiou" and things got dark.

In this new article I mix together reflections on my own university experience in a particular time and place with a discussion of the types of 'university carewashing' happening today. Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I don't agree with the tweet but here is where I think most of the tension is that people dont discuss a lot.

⚡️⚡️ My new book 'Understanding Data, Culture and Society' published by Sage Media & Comm, is available for preview at Google Books! ⚡️⚡️ #UnderstandingDataCultureSociety google.co.uk/books/edition/…

‘The machine is, of course, amoral. It optimises for whatever “conversions” it is told to pursue: installs of Angry Birds; sales of saris made by village women; voters signing up for a Donald Trump rally.’ Donald MacKenzie on smartphone ads: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with University of California Press ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share! ucpress.edu/books/derivati… bookshop.org/p/books/deriva… #pubday

Popular Music / Work / Crisis 5-7pm, 10th October, University of Westminster CAMRI Media Research Co-launch of new books from me and Paul Rekret Paul Rekret, with Aasiya Lodhi and Sally Anne Gross as our excellent discussants. Open to all! eventbrite.co.uk/e/popular-musi…

A brilliant sounding event below!

Toby Bennett and I will be discussing our distinct approaches to labour, capitalism and contemporary music with some brilliant interlocutors Oct 10th at the University of Westminster

Very excited to be introducing these two great books ! Revealing what happens in the backrooms and brings a hammer to the power lines of the music industry!

Now out in Economy & Society - ‘Stay Home: Mapping the new Domestic Regime’ by Will Davies Sahil Dutta & Nick Taylor tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📖 Read an excerpt from Toby Bennett's (Toby Bennett) upcoming book, Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: bit.ly/3z33CvL

I received mine in Glasgow 3 days ago..thanks it looks terrific .....