• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• The bear and the cat

• my life as a teenage scarecrow

• Forgetting was my only option

• The Sheer Entertainment Value of the City’s Sights, Sounds and Smells: Gilbert and George at the Heywood Gallery

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

• Where I end and you begin

• So here I am

• The coming economic crash and the far right

• Some sociological thoughts on group analysis

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• My work is loving the world

• I know the culture here is to stay humble but shit

• Yanis Varoufakis on a socialist interpretation of human flourishing

• Where you yourself were never quite yourself and did not want nor have to be

• A slice of reality

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Reparative socialism: Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety

• Fox News host calls for execution of homeless people

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

• Winter is coming

• What are Reform UK’s policies for higher education?

• Zack Polanksi: “what’s unrealistic is continuing with the status quo”

• Where did Python come from?

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

• Late September, an interregnum of heat among the scrambling of things

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• Zack Polanski’s doing a podcast and it’s excellent!

• A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

• a point is a beginning

• Murakami on the reflexive imperative as you age

• Calm creation that in opening closes, often ceases by starting

• So I find words I never thought to speak in streets I never thought I should revisit

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time

• Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence…

• Well it’s a deep dark night and I hear you, I’ve been there

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• Taking the AGI pill

• What if universities no longer existed?

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

• I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The invention of the Marvel universe

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• So here I am

• Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• Your next chapter will be great

• We’re all coming home in a while

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

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

• If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you!

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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