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Roger Burrows

@rogerjburrows.bsky.social
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Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof in Global Inequalities, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Hon Prof, School of Sociology, ANU; Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, Adelaide University.

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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On Palantirism? A guide for the perplexed | Crawford School of Public Policy
A guide to 'Palantirism': how Palantir's founders' philosophy underwrites its embedding in state and corporate infrastructure.
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Algorithmic risk and social housing access in England
Across 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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Why we desperately need to start believing autistic people
Joey 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 · 25/08/2026
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
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Bourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation - Steven Threadgold, Beverley Skeggs, Roger Burrows, 2026
This article argues that algorithmic, platformed culture has been absorbed into predictive infrastructures that shape access to finance, insurance and housing. ...
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Sociology and the Politics of AI: The Sovereign Individual Revisited | Sociologica
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Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Bourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Housing and Urban Studies | School for Policy Studies | University of Bristol
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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tales of the disconnected
a 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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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tales of the disconnected
a 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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Latest news on our London campus
All of the recent news about Goldsmiths students, staff, alumni, research and more. Learn what’s happening at Goldsmiths.
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Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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
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Consumption, Technology and Everyday Life 2026 - YouTube
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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...
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From Resisting AI to Decomputing
Dan McQuillan talks critical AI politics
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Any VC/SMT/Council with the resource and even a small modicum of progressive and strategic sensibility would give this a new home.
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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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.
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The 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...
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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.
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Dispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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The fascism expert at the heart of Palantir | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is amazing stuff from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/04/2026
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
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The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
A 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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Vice-Chancellor at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Some of us have been scared of this since 1991
Copy of Manuel Delanda’s War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Algorithmic Dwelling
Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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.
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Cities Under Siege
Cities 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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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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ANU School of Sociology Seminar Series: Prof Roger Burrows
ANU School of Sociology Seminar series on
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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New on PLATFORM
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Alison Wallace @alisonwyork.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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....
Photo of first page of article in Int Journal of Housing Policy
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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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The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What 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...
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Why Open Banking is important for housing studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profiling
This 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 ...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Understanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profiling
This 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 ...
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life
Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the ca....
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
Black text on white background under a square blue icon on the top left. Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce outcomes of Centres of Excellence on Tuesday 9th Dec. 2025.
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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre @newcastleyouth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are very happy to announce our huge online seminar series for 2026! You can see the details for the whole thing at our Eventbrite page and each one below.
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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre
The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in.Too of...
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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753... I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
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The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community
The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequat...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction! #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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How proptech platforms are reshaping discretionary power in the private rental housing market
Access to rental housing has historically been influenced by the discretionary decision-making of property managers, who hold a powerful intermediary …
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#CentresOfExcellence #CE26 ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes! It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
Screenshot of ARC "network messages" webpage stating that Centres of Excellence outcomes are "postponed". Blue text on white background as a heading, above an image of concentric part circles, to make a sort-of whirlpool pattern, above black text on white background.
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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Reply to some great comments on mine and Gavin Wood’s piece on #housing, the asset economy and a resurgence of rentier capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reply to Comments on the Edges of Owner Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
This piece replies to some fine scholarship from the six commentators who have taken up the pen in response to our focus article. We hope our reply does them justice and invites others to join the ...
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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International Fellows Award | Adelaide University
Connect with top global researchers at Adelaide University through the International Fellows Award—where world-class research meets world-class living in one of the world’s most liveable cities.
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