• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• RIP Michael Burawoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

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

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

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• Eep! Eep! Eep!

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

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

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism