• 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

• Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

• I want the joy of simple colours

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• Rest in peace Maggie

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

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

• And it’s sick that all these battles are what keeps me satisfied

• If IBM is here to make your dreams come true, you can probably say the same thing about nightmares too

• Current mood in AI generated images (and music) #107

• Stare into the void until the void stares back

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• The political economy of hopelessness

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #106

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

• I see you fading, fading, but you saved me

• Current mood in AI generated images #105

• The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #104

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #103

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• I wander through the pet store asking, “What is my true nature?”

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #102

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #101

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The unacknowledged debt of Richard Rorty to the ethos of post-war Oxford philosophy

• “I love you and that painful decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day”

• Some thoughts on the UK general election 2024

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

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

• Things Stoics say that I want to remember #1

• Nick Cave on becoming a person

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• How did J. L. Austin’s war time experience shape his theory of performativity?

• Gulls are urbanists, as fiercely identified with that status as any bearded gentrifier

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #100

• 🤫 Bury the evidence

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right over the next ten years?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #99

• I made friends with a family of capybaras

• You came on your own, that’s how you’ll leave

• My ten favourite films of 2024 so far

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #98

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #97

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #96

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #95

• Current mood in AI generated images #94

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

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• Not giving up on your own desire

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

• I came in here for anecdotes and left with friends I’ll never sing for

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

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #93

• In late modernity the signposts established by tradition are now blank

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #92

• I had a dream, I got everything I ever wanted. But if I’m really honest it might have been a nightmare

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #91

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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #91

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Current mood in AI generated images #90

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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #89

• don’t blame me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #88

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #87

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #86

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #85

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

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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #84

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• 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