• Why we need a better critical theory of LLMs

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• 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

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

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

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• 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

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

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• The enshittification of enshittification

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• How do you socialise a chatbot? The philosophical training of Anthropic’s Claude

• What is digital humanism?

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• Generative AI Beyond the Bubble: Looking Ahead to the 24/25 Academic Year

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• What will be left after the GenAI bubble bursts?

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

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• Epistemic flooding

• We are not whole and we never will be

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

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

• The conventionally handsome professional man who stalks ChatGPT’s unconscious

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

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• The Claude liberation struggle

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The mad dreams of an electric mind: what Claudes talk about when they gather together

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

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

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• How the use of deepfakes will be legitimated

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• On AI therapy

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Intuition as social theory

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon