• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• Current mood in AI generated images #175

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #174

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• So, what is utopia good for? For walking

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #173

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #172

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #171

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #170

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #169

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #168

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #167

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #166

• Some thoughts on reading Margaret Archer’s work as a unified project

• Some notes on Margaret Archer’s theorising of digital technology

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

• RIP Michael Burawoy

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #165

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #164

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #163

• The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth