• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The challenge of feral sociology

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• You’re young until you’re not, you love until you don’t, you try until you can’t

• 📍Margaret Archer’s final book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Current mood in AI generated images #51

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• Margaret Archer’s final paper: Coincidence – A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future

• Why aren’t libertarian conspiracy theorists interested in Project 2025?

• I don’t like walking around this old and empty house. So hold my hand, I’ll walk with you my dear

• Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Current mood in AI generated images #50

• These kids don’t play my shit I never had a top ten, maybe it’s because I sing about violence and depression  

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Current mood in AI generated images #49

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #48

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Two feet standing on a principle

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Current mood in AI generated images #47

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts