• 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

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Someone is WRONG on the internet!

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• Leave me alone

• On trauma and forgetting

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• The will to create from zero

• Current mood in AI generated images #72

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight? Judith Butler’s theory of social change

• The metonymy of desire

• The mad dreams of an electric mind: what Claudes talk about when they gather together

• CfP: Sociology of the 1980s

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• Current mood in AI generated images #71

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• On temporising

• Articulating what is latent is easier then articulating what is repressed

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #70

• The end is where we start from

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• Current mood in AI generated images #69

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living

• Current mood in AI generated images #68

• Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Book launch: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics, March 28th at 3pm-4pm

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• Who told you he’s not the shit? Well, a bloody liar he is

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Would you be interested in a workshop about psychoanalysis and the sociotechnical?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #67

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• International Association of Critical Realism 2024: Looking Back to Look Forward

• RIP Sam. 14 years yesterday.

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

• On dance notation

• Current mood in AI generated images #66

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• A capybara and its guinea pig friends ❤️

• Current mood in AI generated images #65

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• I’ve had this stuck in my head for the last 48 hours

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• How the use of deepfakes will be legitimated

• 🐈‍⬛ In praise of black cats

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• Current mood in AI generated images #64

• On AI therapy

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• The silent inner world

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• Claude 3 is astonishingly fluent in theorising its own path to super-intelligence

• A wild god searching for a faraway girl, who was basically a mirage that nevertheless loomed large

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• Margaret Archer’s Final Book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. Launch event on March 28th, 3pm GMT