• 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

• Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard | Full Length Documentary

• I just discovered there is a Capoeira fighter in the UFC and it’s stunning

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #157

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #156

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• You were not on the receiving end of it all

• Why I find Manchester in 2025 architecturally depressing, but in an interesting way, in one photo

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #155

• I asked a librarian if he had a book about Pavlov’s dogs and Schrödinger’s cat

• There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope