• 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

• Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• Some thoughts on reading Margaret Archer’s work as a unified project

• 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 Book Proposals: University Reimagined

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

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

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

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

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

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

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• LLMs as engines of problematization

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

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

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• “If H5 is ever going to be a pandemic, it’s going to be now”

• Using reasoning models to support theory-building

• How are people using Claude?

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• The first reviews of Generative AI for Academics have arrived

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• What is Elon Musk’s end game?

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• A list of interesting Generative AI tools I want to explore

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The enshittification of enshittification

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• A sociological rather than psychological notion of susceptibility to being drawn into cults

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• 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

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

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

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• 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

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

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

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• LLMs are rubber ducks that can talk back to you

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

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

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

• What is digital humanism?

• Integrating Christopher Alexander’s design theory into Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully