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📍Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving
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📍What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project
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📍Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics
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📍Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick
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📍Books I’ve read in 2024
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🐈⬛ Farewell my silent comrade
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🐈⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal
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To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object
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Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80
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One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people
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Too focused on the content and not enough on context
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How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?
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The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s
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Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?
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Current mood in AI generated images #79
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90% of books sell less than 2000 copies and 50% sell less than 12 companies
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The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service
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Current mood in AI generated images #78
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How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released
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Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure
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I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine
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Current mood in AI generated images #77
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The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs
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The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines
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Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia
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Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76
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Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other
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My first attempt at AI-generated music
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How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?
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Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld
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Platform studies needs to attend to use culture
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Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75
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i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern
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In defence of optimism
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Current mood in AI generated images #74
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Current mood in (not) AI generated images #73
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The Claude liberation struggle