• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• What I’ll be working on over the next five years

• If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

• How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

• I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me

• Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Why has social media become so grim?

• The lights are out, the phones are dead

• Who should we trust when the apocalypse comes? Some thoughts on post-horror

• Hope is optimism with a broken heart

• What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

• There’s no guilty party

• On metronormativity

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality

• This place was a shelter

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Rise like Lions after slumber

• Have a vegan Christmas

• Habermas on colonisation of the lifeworld

• You’re doing pretty well given the circumstances

• I think I thought I saw you try

• Recovering critique in an age of datafication

• Music is the weapon

• Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Capitalism is tearing us apart

• Rilke on living the questions rather than demanding the answers

• A theory of learning for the future: the realist concept of reflexivity and the pragmatist concept of experience

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• The lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Georg Simmel and Critical Realism

• Why (material) things matter to people

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• My favourite lyrics from Nick Cave’s Ghosteen filtered through an AI art generator

• Inventing our lives

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• What happens if Twitter fails? A few provisional suggestions

• What Microsoft Teams is and what it could be

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• Being open to the world

• The comfort of ideas

• The chasm at the heart of our agency

• Why do we tweet?