• 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

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• 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

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• 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

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

• 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 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

• 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