• 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

• 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