• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Current mood in AI generated images #94

• We are not whole and we never will be

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• Not giving up on your own desire

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• The conventionally handsome professional man who stalks ChatGPT’s unconscious

• I came in here for anecdotes and left with friends I’ll never sing for

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #93

• In late modernity the signposts established by tradition are now blank

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #92

• I had a dream, I got everything I ever wanted. But if I’m really honest it might have been a nightmare

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• 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