• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

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

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Leave me alone

• On trauma and forgetting

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• The will to create from zero

• Current mood in AI generated images #72

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight? Judith Butler’s theory of social change

• The metonymy of desire

• The mad dreams of an electric mind: what Claudes talk about when they gather together

• CfP: Sociology of the 1980s

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• Current mood in AI generated images #71

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• On temporising

• Articulating what is latent is easier then articulating what is repressed

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #70

• The end is where we start from

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• Current mood in AI generated images #69

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living

• Current mood in AI generated images #68

• Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Book launch: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics, March 28th at 3pm-4pm

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• Who told you he’s not the shit? Well, a bloody liar he is

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Would you be interested in a workshop about psychoanalysis and the sociotechnical?