• 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

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

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

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

• The practice of social theory

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2025

• 2024: a (work) year in review

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• An ultra-minimalist blogging platform

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• How to free associate

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on The Nowhere Office, by Julia Hobsbawm

• My notes on The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionise Everything, by Matthew Ball

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• How to enjoy writing #16: don’t impose a shape on things too quickly

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

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

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

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images