• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

• Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

• Podcasting in higher education

• Should you write every day?

• The privilige of academics during the pandemic

• Some thoughts on technology in the post-pandemic university

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group

• Some notes on social generativity

• What’s the difference between a cult and a community?

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded

• Digital Scholarship after Covid-19: an overview of my next book

• We are ugly but we have the music

• Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

• Post-horror and the obscene character of (post-pandemic?) parties

• André Gorz and the concept of hygiene

• Reflexivity, contingency and platforms

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• What do you do, exactly?

• What are socio-technical transitions?

• Some thoughts on hybrid teaching and student poverty in the 22/23 academic year

• Flourishing as freedom

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• Stagnation, euthymia and flourishing

• Do you work with social media in universities?

• Academic developers as choreographers of professional reflexivity

• The difference between being post-pandemic and post-covid

• We’ll go someplace, we’ll get a new start 

• An introvert’s guide to post-pandemic networking

• How do you have rewarding conversations about social theory?

• Why do we read philosophy?

• I choose this

• What is it that’s special about face to face events? Perspectives from Peter Sloterdijk and Randall Collins

• What does sustainable (digital) scholarship look like for individual scholars?

• Why is learning theory important?

• How many times must we be shown the outcome of the pattern?

• How can we ensure consistency in digital education while leaving room for experimentation?

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Could we have a university without e-mail?

• Human augmentation and the future of warfare

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

• What am I trying to do with my research?

• On Rain

• What is an intellectual community?