• LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older

• A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• How to enjoy writing #16: don’t impose a shape on things too quickly

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images