• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

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

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

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• Prompting as a literary practice

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

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

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• LLMs as engines of problematization

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• How are people using Claude?

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• What is ChatGPT? An introduction to humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism

• Hannah Arendt on Benjamin’s thought fragments and pearl diving

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

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• What is digital humanism?

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The Deepfake Detection test

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

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

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

• My notes on Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

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

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

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

• Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• 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

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

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

• 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

• 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

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

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

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

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

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

• 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

• Crowds on Demand: “out-of-the-box campaigns, audiences and events”

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• 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

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

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

• Articulating what is latent is easier then articulating what is repressed

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• Would you be interested in a workshop about psychoanalysis and the sociotechnical?

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

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

• On AI therapy