• 📚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

• But when it starts to sink I’ll grab the wheel, I’ll keep on steering for you

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• Generative AI and the future of universities: four sociological forecasts

• All I know is I forgot how to be me

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• Fully automated luxury universities

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant, I’ve been taking some time to be still

• The Tale of Jenny & Screech

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• “You turned into who you are? I did too”: the love letters of Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• And I met you between the wax and the needle in the words of my favourite song

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• Artificial intelligence and educational centralisation

• I was far too scared to hit him, but I would hit him in a heartbeat now

• Epitaph on a Tyrant

• Words are for those with promises to keep

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination

• I Ain’t Scared of Lightning

• Nick Cave on sobriety

• The Entangled Forest

• I’m transforming, I’m vibrating, look at me now

• Are universities too slow to cope with Generative AI?

• On losing what we never possessed

• It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• The “when-I-finally” mindset

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• How do we inventory the use of generative AI in different areas of activity?

• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

• What will generative AI mean for digital methods?

• Ain’t this just like the present to be showing up like this?