• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Margaret Archer’s last paper: Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach?

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #81

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• 💻 Advance Your Career in Digital Education with the MA Digital Technologies Communication and Education

• The Nietzschean Midday: Lacanian thoughts on the continual moment of possibility

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Celebrity Tory MP Alan Clark on his enthusiasm for sexual predation

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• Too focused on the content and not enough on context

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?

• Current mood in AI generated images #79

• 90% of books sell less than 2000 copies and 50% sell less than 12 companies

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Current mood in AI generated images #78

• How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern

• In defence of optimism

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• Breaking up with oneself

• Current mood in AI generated images #74

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #73

• The Claude liberation struggle