• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Current mood in AI generated images #49

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #48

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

• Two feet standing on a principle

• Current mood in AI generated images #47

• The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• Derek Hook on diagnosis in Lacan

• The starting point for my second attempt to write a novel: Trinity College Cambridge, after the crash 🌊☀️☠️

• Capybaras and chess: together at last

• He pretends that he’s understanding and you know in the grand scheme of everything he’s probably called a nice man

• Nick Cave on the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning

• Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

• What are your strengths?

• 📍Digital Sociology Wikipedia Editathon/Meetup – Feb 1st in Edinburgh

• What you’re doing to me now, ouch

• Why did Giddens largely ignore Bourdieu?

• We need jungle, I’m afraid (I can’t accept drum and bass)

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• How much are academics paid in different national systems?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #46

• 📖 Books I’ve read in 2024

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• “I feel like I’m gaining some kind of power by expelling all of my inner thoughts and secrets to people in rooms”

• The Lacan gang

• The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

• Procrastination

• The existentialist Lacan

• Current mood in AI generated images #45

• 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