• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• Current mood in AI generated images #12

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• In a financialised economy raising interest rates actually causes inflation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• How to avoid shiny new thing syndrome

• The impact of the cost of living crisis on the educational experiences of international students

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• What Do Artificial Intelligence Systems Mean For Academic Practice?

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• The technological infrastructure of beatboxing

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• Current mood in AI generated images #11

• The ‘decided desire’ of the post-analysis neurotic

• I should’ve found a way out so everyone can find a way out

• “She says, I’m not your enemy. I said, that sounds like something that my enemy would say”

• ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

• Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #10

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• Visualising The Real

• Niklas Luhmann’s critique of organisational sociology

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• Current mood in AI generated images #9

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• Science and scholarship in a changing Europe, July 3rd

• The list of things I used to be is longer than the list of things I am

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• I am not in Kansas, where I am I don’t know where

• The humanistic roots of systems theory

• Current mood in AI generated images #8

• Twenty-to-one, look at the time, it’s twenty-to-one

• The return of fascism in Europe

• Margaret Archer (1943-2023)

• Current mood in AI generated images #7

• What will a radical wave of automation look like in higher education?

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family

• Magpie funerals

• Current mood in AI generated images #6

• Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

• ChatGPT: analyse Margaret Archer’s four modes of reflexivity in terms of Lacanian theory

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• Current mood in AI generated images #5

• Current mood in AI generated images #4

• I remember pretty faces so severe & lyrical

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?

• ChatGPT: How have different disciplines defined the campus in different way?

• Generative AI and the digital divide

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Where did you go? I would say that to myself often

• Current mood in AI generated images #3

• Walking in the air

• I’m looking for a voice in the white noise

• Reading the Archers

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• Digital tools for each of the six learning types

• A collection of video lectures and interviews with Margaret Archer

• Current mood in AI generated images #2

• Be more kind, my friends. Try to be more kind

• Some thoughts on generative AI

• ChatGPT: how could generative AI improve the flow of information within the unviersity system?

• This country is nothing but an offshore laundry for turning evil into hard currency

• How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

• I don’t control life, but I control how I react to it

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• What is a ‘quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

• I get overwhelmed

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• A painting of a capybara in the style of starry night

• ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

• How can academics use ChatGPT to make their work easier?

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• And I never saw you waving, at least that’s what I’ll say

• But when it starts to sink I’ll grab the wheel, I’ll keep on steering for you

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• Generative AI and the future of universities: four sociological forecasts

• All I know is I forgot how to be me

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• Fully automated luxury universities

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)