• 📣 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

• Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• 📣 CfP: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Balancing Equity, Access, and Innovation

• The bear and the cat

• How LLMs reason internally when they realise they are being tested

• A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

• my life as a teenage scarecrow

• Is big tech a driver of inflation?

• Could mass automation be imminent?

• The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

• A single point of failure for all the world’s digital infrastructure

• What do we mean by responsible AI? A panel discussion

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• Forgetting was my only option

• The late 2020s as the final act of modernity

• What kind of AI bubble are we in?

• 📚Reading the Archers: an intensive summer 2026 reading group

• The Sheer Entertainment Value of the City’s Sights, Sounds and Smells: Gilbert and George at the Heywood Gallery

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

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

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

• The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

• When LLMs help each other

• What will it feel like in the future to lose access to LLMs?

• The two tier future of LLM-infused higher education

• Where I end and you begin

• The hostility of digital elites to expertise

• Has there been any improvement in AI detectors over the last 12 months? A GPT 5 Pro literature review

• The crushing banality of AI-play

• The first AI ‘law firm’ in the UK

• Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

• So here I am

• The coming economic crash and the far right

• Some sociological thoughts on group analysis

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• My work is loving the world

• I know the culture here is to stay humble but shit

• A Lacanian analysis of asexuality

• What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

• 👾 Three Years On: Generative AI at University of Manchester

• Yanis Varoufakis on a socialist interpretation of human flourishing

• The tech bros trying to make a feminist case for AI porn

• Turning ChatGPT into the control room of a user’s digital life

• Why we need a better critical theory of LLMs

• Some sociological thoughts on responsible AI

• Where you yourself were never quite yourself and did not want nor have to be

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

• A slice of reality

• At some point you had to pick a direction and start swimming: the philosophical anthropology of commitment

• Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs