• Current mood in AI generated images #141

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #140

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #139

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #138

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #137

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Current mood in AI generated images #134

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• Current mood in AI generated images #133

• I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #132

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #131

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #130

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #129

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #128

• Current mood in AI generated images #127

• The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #126

• I live my life in widening circles

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• Put out my eyes, and I can see you still

• Making the familiar strange

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• There was a Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 😮

• Current mood in AI generated images #125

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #124

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #123

• What you seek, it is near, now comes to meet you half-way

• The enigmatic desolation of Caspar David Friedrich

• We must be still and still moving, into another intensity

• 🍂 Current mood in AI generated images #122

• The fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #121

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• Current mood in AI generated images #120

• Current mood in AI generated images #119

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• He came home from the war with a party in his head

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #118

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

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

• A poor lost and confused fox running down one of Manchester’s main shopping street in the middle of the day 😢

• Hannah Arendt Consortium Launch event Sept 26th and 27th, 2024

• Ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #117

• And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts

• The limp charade of Cambridge in the 2020s

• Who’s to hold up the sky if not you and I?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #116

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• “Dear Self, I know you’re crying out for help”

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #115

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

• I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #114

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• The newly united Democratic Party is running on vibes but they are excellent vibes

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Current mood in AI generated images #113

• Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

• Minimalism as a philosophy of post-neoliberalism

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do and waking up and not following through

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #112

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #111

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #110

• We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #109

• Live the questions now

• Current mood in AI generated images #108

• 💔 The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years