• 📣 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

• 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

• 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