• Current mood in AI generated images #43

• How do we visualise an assemblage?

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• If Blink 182 Wrote ‘Wonderwall’

• Current mood in AI generated images #42

• I did not remember how frequently characters smoked in early 90s superhero comics

• The most popular posts on my blog in 2023

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #41

• Online reading group: Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• What is social ontology? Margaret Archer’s introduction in 13 minutes

• Current mood in AI generated images #40

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• Why do buildings feel the way they do for us?

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Now I’m ready to grow young again

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Current mood in AI generated images #39

• Current mood in AI generated images #38

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• The grief, it gets me, and the weird goodbyes

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• You could still be what you said you were when I met you

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• Current mood in AI generated images #37

• “You point your fucking finger. You racist, you bigot. But that’s not the problem, now is it?”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #36

• Donna Tartt reads The Secret History

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

• My 10 favourite films of 2023

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• Never trust a Tory

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• Time to get the seeds into the cold ground. It takes a while to grow anything.

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• When Elon Musk and George Osborne were forced to confront that people hate them

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• The best Gaslight Anthem show I’ve found on Youtube

• Generative AI for Academics

• The best National show I’ve found on YouTube

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #35

• The rise of sociophobia

• Current mood in AI generated images #34

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The future’s not what it used to be

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• I can’t steal you

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• Lu You’s (1183) cat poetry

• Current mood in AI generated images #33

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• The Role of Professional Bodies in the Development of Sociology

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• So if I go down, Lily, I’m going down believing

• We’re getting a divorce, you keep the diner

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• Stuart Hall: “I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.”

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• ‘The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media’ is now open access

• ‘Promises Promises’: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic Re-Negotiation of Education Futures – Nov 22nd, Manchester

• Current mood in AI generated images #32

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Do you bury friendship along with a friend?

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• A TED talk on pet loss

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Current mood in AI generated images #31

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

• Hold it ’til you feel it there. As dark, and dense, and wet as earth. As vast, and bright, and sweet as air

• A frog jumps into the water

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The preciousness of what is already broken

• How I miss you, how I miss you. And it’s good to be alive

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Maté on grieving as compassionate inquiry

• Nature’s aim for everything includes its cessation

• I am a weatherman watching the skies, trying to read you

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• 🐈‍⬛ Farewell my silent comrade

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Michigan, 1975

• Who actually reads this blog?

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• And everybody’s hurt, and mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now