• 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

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• All trauma is preverbal

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

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

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• The Deepfake Detection test

• We must be still and still moving, into another intensity

• 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

• What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes

• 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

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• 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

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Reflexivity was always integral to Margaret Archer’s macro-sociology

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

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

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts

• On getting what you want

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on The Nowhere Office, by Julia Hobsbawm

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• 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

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

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

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• “Dear Self, I know you’re crying out for help”

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

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

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• In dark times will there also be singing?

• Playing in the ruins of your past expectations