• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚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

• Hannah Arendt on Benjamin’s thought fragments and pearl diving

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #142

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• I talked to somebody again who knows how to help me get better

• Current mood in AI generated images #141

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #140

• LLMs are rubber ducks that can talk back to you

• How do you socialise a chatbot? The philosophical training of Anthropic’s Claude

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #139

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• What is digital humanism?

• An ultra-minimalist blogging platform

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #138

• Integrating Christopher Alexander’s design theory into Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #137

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Current mood in AI generated images #135

• Current mood in AI generated images #134

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• Current mood in AI generated images #133

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

• I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #132

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• All trauma is preverbal