• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

• The missing skill of technological reflexivity

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• The causal powers of media

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• The death of cyberspace

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• The Dual-Edged Character of Digital Freedom

• The Materiality of the Digital

• Why digitalisation gives rise to ‘memory wars’

• Digital Data, Epistemic Gain and Epistemic Loss: we need to stop seeing digitalisation in epochal terms

• theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

• the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

• images of the human in digital social science

• Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars