• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 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

• “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?

• 📚Reading the Archers: an intensive summer 2026 reading group

• The Sheer Entertainment Value of the City’s Sights, Sounds and Smells: Gilbert and George at the Heywood Gallery

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

• The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

• When LLMs help each other

• What will it feel like in the future to lose access to LLMs?

• The two tier future of LLM-infused higher education

• Where I end and you begin

• The hostility of digital elites to expertise