• 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

• 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