• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

• Please bro, we’re so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• Certified AI-Free Skills and Knowledge: doing all work in person, offline and on paper

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• How much time do people spend using LLMs?

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• The cultural logic of AI slop: the example of AI-produced motivational videos

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered

• Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

• A review essay on Generative AI for Academics

• A relational sociology of large language models in education

• Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

• 4 reasons why Copilot is a poor alternative to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

• Readwise.io lets you talk to your notes and it’s amazing

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

• Webinar: Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way?

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• The doom loops of generative AI

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

• Generative AI and the emergency remote scholarship of the Covid-19 pandemic

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

• Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• Taking the AGI pill

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

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

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• 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

• 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

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• 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 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

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• 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

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• 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

• Some notes on Margaret Archer’s theorising of digital technology

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• LLMs as engines of problematization