• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Platform capitalism, historciality and Andrew Abbott’s sense of modernist temporal ontology

• A pop-punk cover of U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

• Total existence needs meaning and myth, many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist

• 10 highs and 10 lows of 2023

• Alex Garland’s Civil War film looks superb

• Andrew Abbott on the practice of theorising

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• CFP: Generative AI Governance – Special Issues in Information, Communication & Society

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• Current mood in AI generated images #43

• How do we visualise an assemblage?

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• If Blink 182 Wrote ‘Wonderwall’

• Current mood in AI generated images #42

• I did not remember how frequently characters smoked in early 90s superhero comics

• The most popular posts on my blog in 2023

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #41

• Online reading group: Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• What is social ontology? Margaret Archer’s introduction in 13 minutes

• Current mood in AI generated images #40

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• Why do buildings feel the way they do for us?

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Now I’m ready to grow young again

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Current mood in AI generated images #39

• Current mood in AI generated images #38

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• The grief, it gets me, and the weird goodbyes

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• You could still be what you said you were when I met you

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• Current mood in AI generated images #37

• “You point your fucking finger. You racist, you bigot. But that’s not the problem, now is it?”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #36

• Donna Tartt reads The Secret History

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

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

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

• My 10 favourite films of 2023

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• Never trust a Tory

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• Time to get the seeds into the cold ground. It takes a while to grow anything.

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education