• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• On being a mystery to ourselves

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• Current mood in AI generated images #175

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #174

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• So, what is utopia good for? For walking

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #173

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #172

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #171

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #170

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #169

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #168

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #167

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #166

• Some thoughts on reading Margaret Archer’s work as a unified project

• Some notes on Margaret Archer’s theorising of digital technology

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

• RIP Michael Burawoy

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #165

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #164

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #163

• The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth

• Call for Book Proposals: University Reimagined

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #162

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• The practice of social theory

• Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

• The fire and the rose are one

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #161

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #160

• The sociological significance of TikTok

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• CfP: The New Urgency: The Use(lessness) of Theories in Educational Research

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

• Manchester/Salford Critical Ed Tech Network Event, February 19th 12pm-2pm

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #159

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• Eep! Eep! Eep!

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• LLMs as engines of problematization

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #158

• Mainstream betting sides offering 1/3 odds on Trump either disregarding or changing constitutional term limits

• Zupančič: How to live a life worth living

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard | Full Length Documentary

• I just discovered there is a Capoeira fighter in the UFC and it’s stunning

• Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

• Why did the Bluesky migration succeed where the Mastodon migration failed?

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #157

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #156

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• You were not on the receiving end of it all

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky