• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 📚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

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• “Generative AI for Academics is a brisk, sensible map for using LLMs in scholarly life”

• How to stop e-mail dominating your life

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• What is a mood?

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• What do you need to become who you are?

• Stochastic purging

• The most engrossing extended live version I’ve ever seen by a band

• Why I don’t like recording events

• How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

• LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

• Form as a poem’s way of being in the world

• Using LLMs for activism

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

• Lovely review of Generative AI for Academics

• What is a ‘true self’ and what is a ‘false self’?

• Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• 🤖 Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency – January 19th, 1pm GMT, Online

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• CFP: “Digital Subjectivities” Conference (Freie Universität Berlin, May 2026)

• Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• 📣 CfP: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Balancing Equity, Access, and Innovation

• The bear and the cat

• How LLMs reason internally when they realise they are being tested

• A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

• my life as a teenage scarecrow

• Is big tech a driver of inflation?

• Could mass automation be imminent?

• The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

• A single point of failure for all the world’s digital infrastructure

• What do we mean by responsible AI? A panel discussion

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• Forgetting was my only option

• The late 2020s as the final act of modernity

• What kind of AI bubble are we in?