• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• Current mood in AI generated images #91

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #91

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Current mood in AI generated images #90

• How to enjoy writing #16: don’t impose a shape on things too quickly

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• The Many Maps of the University of Manchester Campus. June 7th + 8th

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #89

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

• Lacan psychologically abused at least one trans patient in front of his students

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• don’t blame me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #88

• On finding the words that work

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• “I’m behind with everything I’ve got to do before dying and I’m finding it difficult to make progress”

• The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #87

• If you want another reason to dislike Turnitin

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Socio-epistemic bubbles as the ubiquitous tacit structures of knowledge production

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #86

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #85

• The interaction between climate change and antimicrobial resistance

• Some thoughts on the limitations of critical distance

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #84

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas