• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Defending the Social

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• You’re young until you’re not

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Here’s Lookin’ at You Kid

• I’m going to the river where the current rushes by

• Why do computational methods matter for education?

• On waiting for something to happen

• Metaverse-related books and films

• The concept of cathexis

• How do we stop social media making the academy even more unequal?

• Generative AI and the future of assessment: an open discussion at the Manchester Institute of Education 

• We might be dead by tomorrow

• LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

• Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

• Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression

• The Use of Digital Artefacts in Teaching and Researching: Guidelines for Practice

• Some thoughts about generative AI and the future of education

• I am older now and we did it when we were young

• Too much Zoom in the post-pandemic university

• Irvine Welsh on angst, addiction and writing

• Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

• The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

• Why do computational methods matter for education? Jan 18th at 4pm GMT

• Blog Maggot

• ChatGPT’s limerick about Nietzsche’s depressiveness

• Going on Strike from the Internet: A Plea for Disconnection

• The ladder of abstraction

• Ontological questions about the metaverse

• I am large, I contain multitudes

• What is trauma?

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• The only thing that’s left to do is live

• How to enjoy reading social theory

• Year’s End

• The eye-on-the-object look

• Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Why we need a post-digital approach to the platform university

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• Next year’s going to be better than this

• I miss my old house

• The time a bus went boom outside a conference I was organising

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts