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

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Freud on the psychic rewards of sublimation

• The violence of writing

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• Distance running and finishing books

• The jouissance of writing

• Preparing oneself for a future of enshittified chatbots

• Things I’ve learned about life from a year of distance running

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

• On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

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

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

• OpenAI have just made a big move into research software

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

• 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

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

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older

• A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

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

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• ⚡️ The God War: my first attempt at Marvel fan fiction

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing