• I’ve been taking some time to be distant

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• What I’ll be working on over the next five years

• If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

• How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

• I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me

• Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Why has social media become so grim?

• The lights are out, the phones are dead

• Who should we trust when the apocalypse comes? Some thoughts on post-horror

• Hope is optimism with a broken heart

• What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

• There’s no guilty party

• On metronormativity

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality

• This place was a shelter

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Rise like Lions after slumber

• Have a vegan Christmas

• Habermas on colonisation of the lifeworld

• You’re doing pretty well given the circumstances

• I think I thought I saw you try

• Recovering critique in an age of datafication

• Music is the weapon

• Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Capitalism is tearing us apart

• Rilke on living the questions rather than demanding the answers

• A theory of learning for the future: the realist concept of reflexivity and the pragmatist concept of experience

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• The lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Georg Simmel and Critical Realism

• Why (material) things matter to people

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• My favourite lyrics from Nick Cave’s Ghosteen filtered through an AI art generator

• Inventing our lives

• 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?

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films