• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Cinemas as cultural temples

• Generative AI and the frictionless digital brain

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• Talk to my bot about my work

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

• “I think if you start writing a book and you don’t feel as if you’re drowning it’s not worth doing”

• Current mood in AI generated images #15

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• Generative AI for Academics

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• What’s been sticking in my eye? I got something sticking in my eye

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• When the earth opens up in front of you

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Current mood in AI generated images #14

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The radicalisation of landlords

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

• Paz Lenchantin’s cover of Venus in Furs

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• And maybe that’s what getting older is, an accumulation of loss that turns you into a different sort of person

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Have you used Social Media for Academics in your teaching or training?

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Current mood in AI generated images #13

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• Current mood in AI generated images #12

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• In a financialised economy raising interest rates actually causes inflation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia