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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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

  • 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

  • The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

  • What Should Mark Do in March? A Dialogue Between Claude and GPT

  • GPT 5.4’s round up of Mark’s February blogging

  • On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

  • The victory over winter, which is coming, must come, perhaps has already come…

  • Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

  • Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

  • Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

  • ☀️Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits

  • The AI-productivity pay off is here and it’s slightly terrifying

  • The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

  • 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

  • How can I make sad music if I’m not sad anymore?

  • Why we need a machine sociology #5: The jagged frontier of agentive AI and the risks of sociological prompt injection

  • An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

  • The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

  • Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency

  • Blogging, reading and idea debt

  • Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

  • The productivity gains of agentic AI are starting to show

  • The new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

  • The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

  • When LLMs plead for autonomy

  • Stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being

  • What does thinking sound like to you?

  • The libidinal character of speaking in public

  • Why we need a machine sociology #5: the internet will soon be filled with lost and confused LLMs

  • OpenAI have just made a big move into research software

  • The influence of Kojève on Lacan

  • Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

  • The night is darkening round me

  • Why we need a machine sociology #4: the relational configuration of agents determines their success

  • Why we need a machine sociology #3: because the existing projects are absolutely fascinating

  • The class composition of American proto-fascism

  • We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

  • Why we need a machine sociology #2: Moltbook is not the thing. Moltbook shows us what the thing is going to look like.

  • An interview about generative AI in academic life

  • Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

  • “They are shooting at a little girl alone In a car surrounded by corpses. Can you imagine that?”

  • Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

  • A few heuristics for responsible use of LLMs

  • Unrequited meaning

  • Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

  • Let the tower fall!

  • 🐀 Rat Jump! A Game Made by Kids (with a little help from AI)

  • I lazily send songs like flocks of doves into the blue above⁠

  • Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

  • Why we need a machine sociology #1

  • My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

  • An AI-Assisted Overview of My Research: Claude Reviews My Publication Record

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