• 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

• Current mood in AI generated images #8

• Twenty-to-one, look at the time, it’s twenty-to-one

• Margaret Archer (1943-2023)

• Current mood in AI generated images #7

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• Magpie funerals

• Current mood in AI generated images #6

• Current mood in AI generated images #5

• Current mood in AI generated images #4

• I remember pretty faces so severe & lyrical

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Where did you go? I would say that to myself often

• Current mood in AI generated images #3

• Walking in the air

• I’m looking for a voice in the white noise

• Reading the Archers

• A collection of video lectures and interviews with Margaret Archer

• Current mood in AI generated images #2

• Be more kind, my friends. Try to be more kind

• Some thoughts on generative AI

• This country is nothing but an offshore laundry for turning evil into hard currency

• I don’t control life, but I control how I react to it

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• I get overwhelmed

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• A painting of a capybara in the style of starry night

• How can academics use ChatGPT to make their work easier?

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• And I never saw you waving, at least that’s what I’ll say

• But when it starts to sink I’ll grab the wheel, I’ll keep on steering for you

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• All I know is I forgot how to be me

• Fully automated luxury universities

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant, I’ve been taking some time to be still

• The Tale of Jenny & Screech

• “You turned into who you are? I did too”: the love letters of Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• And I met you between the wax and the needle in the words of my favourite song

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• I was far too scared to hit him, but I would hit him in a heartbeat now

• Epitaph on a Tyrant

• Words are for those with promises to keep

• That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination

• I Ain’t Scared of Lightning

• 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