• “I’m behind with everything I’ve got to do before dying and I’m finding it difficult to make progress”

• The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #87

• If you want another reason to dislike Turnitin

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Socio-epistemic bubbles as the ubiquitous tacit structures of knowledge production

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #86

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #85

• The interaction between climate change and antimicrobial resistance

• Some thoughts on the limitations of critical distance

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #84

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• Current mood in AI generated images #83

• 🎧 Generative Dialogues: a podcast about GAI in higher education

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• For I move slower and quieter than most

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• Four useful roles you can ask ChatGPT or Claude to play

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• If we don’t approach GAI with reflexivity then education is doomed

• Adam Tooze on the sweaty muscularity of state power

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• The enjoyment of turmoil

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #82

• Crowds on Demand: “out-of-the-box campaigns, audiences and events”

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• The almost infinite range of cases to which shallow fakes can be applied

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a million locks and finally read a book in peace

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me

• Margaret Archer’s last paper: Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach?

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #81

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• 💻 Advance Your Career in Digital Education with the MA Digital Technologies Communication and Education

• The Nietzschean Midday: Lacanian thoughts on the continual moment of possibility

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Celebrity Tory MP Alan Clark on his enthusiasm for sexual predation

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• Too focused on the content and not enough on context

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?

• Current mood in AI generated images #79

• 90% of books sell less than 2000 copies and 50% sell less than 12 companies

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Current mood in AI generated images #78

• How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• What is fascism in the 2020s?