• Nick Cave on sobriety

• The Entangled Forest

• I’m transforming, I’m vibrating, look at me now

• It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning

• The “when-I-finally” mindset

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• Ain’t this just like the present to be showing up like this?

• On rushing and apophatic reflexivity

• Three White Horses and a Golden Chain

• The problem with falling in love in late-night bars is that there’s always more nights, there’s always more bars

• Looked the devil in his face like, “Motherfucker, do your worst”

• Chat-GPT: Write the communist manifest but in favour of capitalism

• Chat-GPT: write me an Eminem song about cats

• How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?

• The career trajectory of Jon Stewart

• The rarely seen fourth verse of Gangster’s paradise

• Birdsong

• Not with a bang but a whimper

• A poem about generative AI and its impact on universities in the style of Dr Seuss

• Obama the Blairite moderniser

• The unity of dread and bliss

• “You can’t change the past but you can make the future. Anyone who tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil”

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• In all its longings and hesitations, the shape of what you lived

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

• Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins

• And I can see your eyes already know

• I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 

• You became like smoke I tried too hard to hold

• He stumbled into faith and thought

• Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

• In digital realms, where thoughts take flight

• We are what we are

• On walking at dusk

• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity 

• To see all sights from pole to pole

• Well this has got to die, this has got to stop

• 👨‍🏫 The world’s a stage and we play a character, I found him 👨‍🏫

• How right-wing think tanks laid the foundation for the coalition’s agenda

• Trying to exist in superposition

• This is the garden. Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest

• 🌼🌿 Spring is coming 🌼🌿

• Baa Baa Land

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• I remember you well from the Chelsea hotel but that’s all, I don’t think of you that often

• The books ChatGPT thinks I already wrote and which I now think I should write

• A song about C Wright Mills written by Chat-GPT

• Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

• The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

• When I was young I was invincible

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• On becoming mid career and post-disciplinary

• Every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination

• The wonder of cats

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• I’ll fight you till I win

• And if I see you, how it changes me

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• The most incredible sky I’ve ever seen in Manchester

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• You’re young until you’re not

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Here’s Lookin’ at You Kid

• I’m going to the river where the current rushes by

• Metaverse-related books and films

• We might be dead by tomorrow

• I am older now and we did it when we were young

• Irvine Welsh on angst, addiction and writing

• Blog Maggot

• ChatGPT’s limerick about Nietzsche’s depressiveness

• I am large, I contain multitudes

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• The only thing that’s left to do is live

• Year’s End

• The eye-on-the-object look

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Next year’s going to be better than this

• I miss my old house

• The time a bus went boom outside a conference I was organising

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

• I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The lights are out, the phones are dead

• Who should we trust when the apocalypse comes? Some thoughts on post-horror

• There’s no guilty party

• On metronormativity

• This place was a shelter

• Rise like Lions after slumber

• Have a vegan Christmas

• You’re doing pretty well given the circumstances

• I think I thought I saw you try

• Music is the weapon

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Capitalism is tearing us apart

• Rilke on living the questions rather than demanding the answers