• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Distance running and finishing books

• Stay calm, boy, my thoughts are burning like they’re napalm

• The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

• The jouissance of writing

• Life asks us to mourn each passing incarnation of the self

• Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way

• Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

• Why do we want what we want?

• Who we are arises from how we have been hurt

• ChatGPT’s roundup of Mark’s April blogging

• The realist concept of concern and the Lacanian concept of desire

• The utter banality of getting what you fantasise about

• “Jeremy Corbyn gets into Downing Street, pulls a lever currently jammed at neoliberalism, yoinks it in the direction of social democracy and all is good”

• Talkie: a pre-1931 chatbot

• Anno: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi

• Gemini’s propensity for self-loathing

• AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

• Preparing oneself for a future of enshittified chatbots

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

• Heidegger on Lacan: “It seems to me the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist”

• Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

• Maybe we are all members of an orchestra that is merely tuning up

• And you can’t fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all

• What is AI criticism for?

• The developmental harms of LLMs which are showing up in the literature

• On misidentifying aggregation dynamics as social norms

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

• I want to unfold, let it enfold you

• The story I have to tell is the history of the next two centuries

• Opus 4.7 is capable of utterly devastating theoretical critique

• 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

• Naturalism in the study of LLMs

• Follow me into the sun

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

• LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

• An interview with Research Professional about the fragmented landscape of digital engagement

• Ex-uber CEO claims that he’s close to major scientific discoveries through ‘vibe physics’

• The rapid rise of social gatherings conceived and enacted by LLMs

• The most unnerving AI slop I’ve seen in ages

• The platitudes about generative AI in higher education are getting tedious

• “Are you the police?”, “No, we’re Youtubers”

• Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

• The need for an ontology of AI therapy

• What the blog categories reveal: a view from the inside

• A pity. We were such a good and loving invention.

• AI Slop: Trust, Inequality and Societal Breakdown

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• What Should Mark Do in April? A Debate Between Claude and GPT

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s March Blogging

• GPT 5.4’s roundup of Mark’s March blogging