• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• What happens if Twitter fails? A few provisional suggestions

• What Microsoft Teams is and what it could be

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• Being open to the world

• The comfort of ideas

• The chasm at the heart of our agency

• Why do we tweet?

• Coaxing the sight and sound back to your life

• New Paper: Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

• The growing infrastructural dominance of big tech within education. What is to be done?

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group, Friday October 28th 1pm-2pm

• CfP: Public Knowledge – the Academy and Beyond

• What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy

• The temporal ontology of modernity

• Webinar: is an environmentally sustainable digital education possible?

• The unconscious fluency of writing

• I built a room for you in the back of my mind

• Are you looking for a teaching role in digital education?

• This Place is a Shelter

• Toni Morrison on fascism

• Disrupting the post-pandemic university: an audio experiment

• The meaning of civics as the new world struggles to be born

• Finding joy on a dying planet: failing to act as psychic self-defence and how to overcome it

• The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

• Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

• Podcasting in higher education

• Should you write every day?

• The privilige of academics during the pandemic

• Some thoughts on technology in the post-pandemic university

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group

• Some notes on social generativity

• What’s the difference between a cult and a community?

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded

• Digital Scholarship after Covid-19: an overview of my next book

• We are ugly but we have the music

• Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

• Post-horror and the obscene character of (post-pandemic?) parties

• André Gorz and the concept of hygiene

• Reflexivity, contingency and platforms

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• What do you do, exactly?

• What are socio-technical transitions?

• Some thoughts on hybrid teaching and student poverty in the 22/23 academic year

• Flourishing as freedom

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?