• 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

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• Current mood in AI generated images #83

• For I move slower and quieter than most

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #82

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a million locks and finally read a book in peace

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #81

• Celebrity Tory MP Alan Clark on his enthusiasm for sexual predation

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

• Too focused on the content and not enough on context

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• Current mood in AI generated images #79

• Current mood in AI generated images #78

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern