• Current mood in AI generated images #28

• The secret origin of NESTA

• On returning to music

• When we get together, take apart my fantasy; when we are done, we’ll work on you

• Urban geometries

• My 30 favourite films of the last two years

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• Academic censorship on sexual misconduct and power abuse: Not in our academia

• I guess this is growing up

• You’re waiting for more than you can feel

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #27

• Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

• To what extent was Roy Bhaskar’s later philosophy shaped by Theosophism?

• Lauren Berlant on the couple form’s own ordinary dangers

• A list of human cognitive biases and the assumptions underpinning them

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• The music of the data centre

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #26

• “Go, you chicken fat, go!”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #25

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #24

• The hostility to earnestness in 90s/00s British culture

• Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in

• What we call the beginning is often the end

• Goodbye summer ☀️ 👋 🍂

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• 9 Stoic Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)

• On learning what matters to us

• The beat that completes your shit these days

• The looming crisis in higher education

• Mad Explosive Spontaneity

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world

• Music that is helping me finish my book #4

• Kill yоur maѕters, kill уour mаker, kill thе dawning of creatіon

• What do plants sound like?

• Ain’t it a sin?

• Current mood in (non) AI generated images #22

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #21

• Music that is helping me finish my book #3

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• If Librarians Were Honest, by Joseph Mills

• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• Current mood in AI generated images #20

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #19

• With this pain I’d rather paint and try to turn this broken picture into something that it ain’t

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• Current mood in AI generated images #18

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #16

• 9 ways to use use conversational agents as a tool for thinking rather than a substitute for thought

• Another GAI hallucinated book which I really want to write

• Music that is helping me finish my book #2

• I didn’t come looking for love, I didn’t come to pick a fight

• RIP Sam. I can’t believe it’s been 11 years.

• Music that is helping me finish my book #1

• A video reflection for the IACR 2023 Margaret Archer memorial session

• MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

• Cinemas as cultural temples

• Current mood in AI generated images #15

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• What’s been sticking in my eye? I got something sticking in my eye

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• When the earth opens up in front of you

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Current mood in AI generated images #14

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The radicalisation of landlords

• The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

• Paz Lenchantin’s cover of Venus in Furs

• And maybe that’s what getting older is, an accumulation of loss that turns you into a different sort of person

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Current mood in AI generated images #13

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• Current mood in AI generated images #12

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• In a financialised economy raising interest rates actually causes inflation

• How to avoid shiny new thing syndrome

• The impact of the cost of living crisis on the educational experiences of international students

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• The technological infrastructure of beatboxing

• Current mood in AI generated images #11

• The ‘decided desire’ of the post-analysis neurotic

• I should’ve found a way out so everyone can find a way out

• “She says, I’m not your enemy. I said, that sounds like something that my enemy would say”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #10

• Visualising The Real

• Current mood in AI generated images #9

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• The list of things I used to be is longer than the list of things I am

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• I am not in Kansas, where I am I don’t know where

• The humanistic roots of systems theory