• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 📣 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

• What happens when the AI bubble pops?

• to drag it out and to make it echo and to get involved and to fall in love

• Calendar fragility in hybrid workplaces

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• Social media firms actively undermine the relationship between content creators and their communities

• Who else is there that can know the subtle intent of my life?

• I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading

• A room in the back of my mind

• Are LLMs parasites?

• I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill

• ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• Why do we choose the cultural objects that we choose?

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

• “I’ve got a feeling that I could be someone”

• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• “Generative AI for Academics is a brisk, sensible map for using LLMs in scholarly life”

• How to stop e-mail dominating your life

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• What is a mood?

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• What do you need to become who you are?

• Stochastic purging

• The most engrossing extended live version I’ve ever seen by a band

• Why I don’t like recording events

• How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

• LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

• Form as a poem’s way of being in the world

• Using LLMs for activism

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

• Lovely review of Generative AI for Academics

• What is a ‘true self’ and what is a ‘false self’?

• Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• 🤖 Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency – January 19th, 1pm GMT, Online

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• CFP: “Digital Subjectivities” Conference (Freie Universität Berlin, May 2026)