• 📣 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

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

• How did J. L. Austin’s war time experience shape his theory of performativity?

• Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

• Gulls are urbanists, as fiercely identified with that status as any bearded gentrifier

• What is sexual attraction? Some Lacanian thoughts on asexuality studies

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #100

• 🤫 Bury the evidence

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right over the next ten years?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #99

• I made friends with a family of capybaras

• You came on your own, that’s how you’ll leave

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• My ten favourite films of 2024 so far

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #98

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #97

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #96

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #95

• ChatGPT knows what MA DTCE stands for but Claude doesn’t

• Epistemic flooding

• 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