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  • Some thoughts about the Archerian concept of reflexivity and putting it to work in books like Generative AI for Academics

  • If you try to speed run AI diffusion in higher education you actually damage AI integration

  • I did an interview with the Omnishow about productivity, writing and creativity with Omnifocus

  • 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

  • A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

  • Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

  • New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

  • How visible are you in the LLM?

  • Claude’s final round up of my blogging

  • ChatGPT’s final round up of my blogging

  • A new academic and intellectual bio after an eventful year

  • Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

  • ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

  • The violence of writing

  • Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

  • Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

  • ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

  • “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

  • New paper: The changing nature of social media and research impact

  • The jouissance of writing

  • ChatGPT’s roundup of Mark’s April blogging

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

  • If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

  • What the blog categories reveal: a view from the inside

  • Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

  • What Should Mark Do in April? A Debate Between Claude and GPT

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s March Blogging

  • GPT 5.4’s roundup of Mark’s March blogging

  • 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

  • From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

  • If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

  • 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

  • What Should Mark Do in March? A Dialogue Between Claude and GPT

  • GPT 5.4’s round up of Mark’s February blogging

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

  • Blogging, reading and idea debt

  • Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

  • An interview about generative AI in academic life

  • My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

  • An AI-Assisted Overview of My Research: Claude Reviews My Publication Record

  • The first inbox zero in about six months

  • What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

  • The last 10 ways I used Claude and ChatGPT

  • I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading

  • “Generative AI for Academics is a brisk, sensible map for using LLMs in scholarly life”

  • How to stop e-mail dominating your life

  • Why I don’t like recording events

  • Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

  • I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

  • I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

  • Lovely review of Generative AI for Academics

  • 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

  • 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

  • What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

  • Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

  • A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older

  • 📣 Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are now available

  • A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

  • On playing well and making yourself heard

  • The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

  • Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

  • Readwise.io lets you talk to your notes and it’s amazing

  • Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

  • Webinar: Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way?

  • An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

  • Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

  • Are you overworking as an academic?

  • Chapters abstracts for my new book

  • 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

  • The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

  • Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

  • The embodied experience of writing

  • LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

  • Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

  • Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

  • Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

  • Prompting as a literary practice

  • 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

  • Academic writing has always been in flux

  • The sensory pleasure of academic writing

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

  • Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

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

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

  • How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

  • 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

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

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

  • Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

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