• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Brain train. Brain train. Brain train. Brain train.

• Low tech, no tech pedagogy to protect foundational knowledge from cognitive outsourcing

• The two phases of the AI and assessment integrity in literature

• I did an interview with the Omnishow about productivity, writing and creativity with Omnifocus

• Copilot saving time for individuals does not mean Copilot saves time for organisations

• A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

• The slow diminishment of life on a dying planet and its implications for social theory

• Even frontier models give wrong answers to financial questions more than half the time

• Does techno have signifiers?

• Why am I listening to so much techno at the moment?

• I run my first marathon in five weeks

• The menacing, alien, unworldly qualities of acid techno embodied in a hostile but spectacular landscape

• Philosophy is what is left over when you bracket out common sense and expertise

• “I’m going to Paris, not France”: language models as compulsive meaning makers

• The risks of integrating AI too rapidly into higher education

• The all-you-can-eat AI buffet has closed

• I know my thoughts but I can’t hide them

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

• How visible are you in the LLM?

• Why AI vendors are targeting public institutions

• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• The beginnings have already begun

• The language models have persuaded me I should shut up for a bit

• Claude’s final round up of my blogging

• ChatGPT’s final round up of my blogging

• Are LLM-written Substacks getting out of hand?

• What are the judgements which students are making as they use AI?

• How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

• The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

• I know you love to fall

• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• So I stayed in the darkness with you

• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too

• A new academic and intellectual bio after an eventful year

• Do we need a horizon scanning infrastructure for AI in higher education?

• What is happening when we desire to watch or read something?

• Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Expanding the very possibilities of being

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

• The rise of Youtube “street content”

• You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us”

• The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

• Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document”