• See he saw me as a human, this one thinks I’m a slaughterhouse

• I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing

• Attention digital sociologists – HELP NEEDED with the Wikipedia page!

• Why does The National’s Matt Berninger write so many beautiful songs about divorce despite being (seemingly) happily married?

• To what extent is ketamine shaping the culture of Silicon Valley?

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• A Tour of Lacan’s Graph of Desire

• Are the economic shocks of 2021-2023 a temporary phenomenon?

• Current mood in AI generated images #44

• Lacan vs the situationist heckler (1972)

• When we all fall asleep, where do we go?

• A pop-punk cover of U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

• Total existence needs meaning and myth, many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist

• 10 highs and 10 lows of 2023

• Alex Garland’s Civil War film looks superb

• Andrew Abbott on the practice of theorising

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• Current mood in AI generated images #43

• If Blink 182 Wrote ‘Wonderwall’

• Current mood in AI generated images #42

• I did not remember how frequently characters smoked in early 90s superhero comics

• The most popular posts on my blog in 2023

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #41

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• What is social ontology? Margaret Archer’s introduction in 13 minutes

• Current mood in AI generated images #40

• Why do buildings feel the way they do for us?

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Now I’m ready to grow young again

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• Current mood in AI generated images #39

• Current mood in AI generated images #38

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• The grief, it gets me, and the weird goodbyes

• You could still be what you said you were when I met you

• Current mood in AI generated images #37

• “You point your fucking finger. You racist, you bigot. But that’s not the problem, now is it?”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #36

• Donna Tartt reads The Secret History

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

• Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

• My 10 favourite films of 2023

• Never trust a Tory

• Time to get the seeds into the cold ground. It takes a while to grow anything.

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• When Elon Musk and George Osborne were forced to confront that people hate them

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• The best Gaslight Anthem show I’ve found on Youtube

• The best National show I’ve found on YouTube

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #35

• Current mood in AI generated images #34

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The future’s not what it used to be

• I can’t steal you

• Lu You’s (1183) cat poetry

• Current mood in AI generated images #33

• So if I go down, Lily, I’m going down believing

• We’re getting a divorce, you keep the diner

• Stuart Hall: “I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.”

• ‘The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media’ is now open access

• ‘Promises Promises’: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic Re-Negotiation of Education Futures – Nov 22nd, Manchester

• Current mood in AI generated images #32

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Do you bury friendship along with a friend?

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• A TED talk on pet loss

• Current mood in AI generated images #31

• Hold it ’til you feel it there. As dark, and dense, and wet as earth. As vast, and bright, and sweet as air

• A frog jumps into the water

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The preciousness of what is already broken

• How I miss you, how I miss you. And it’s good to be alive

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Maté on grieving as compassionate inquiry

• Nature’s aim for everything includes its cessation

• I am a weatherman watching the skies, trying to read you

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• 🐈‍⬛ Farewell my silent comrade

• Michigan, 1975

• Who actually reads this blog?

• And everybody’s hurt, and mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now

• We circle round the sun until someday we won’t, and on and on and on it goes

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• 🐈‍⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• 🔥🐉 The power of the dragon flame

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• Current mood in AI generated images #29

• Destroy what mutilates life

• Everything’s a deadline when you’re trying to find some sleep

• I want to unfold

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd.

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• I will finish this book by Nov 12th ✊

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios