• 📣 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

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #115

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• Current mood in AI generated images #114

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• In dark times will there also be singing?

• The newly united Democratic Party is running on vibes but they are excellent vibes

• Playing in the ruins of your past expectations

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Current mood in AI generated images #113

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

• Minimalism as a philosophy of post-neoliberalism

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do and waking up and not following through

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #112

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #111

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #110

• We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #109

• The weird poetry which ensues when Claude tries to read my handwriting

• Live the questions now

• Current mood in AI generated images #108

• Eudaimonic Bubbles as a normative rather than analytical concept

• 📍Call for blog posts: the Intellectual Legacy of Margaret Archer

• 💔 The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years

• Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• I want the joy of simple colours

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• You can’t ban the English Defence League because it doesn’t exist but you can force Telegram to shut down organising groups

• Rest in peace Maggie

• Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• What will be left after the GenAI bubble bursts?

• A simple way to understand Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing