• The eye-on-the-object look

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• What I’ll be working on over the next five years

• How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Why has social media become so grim?

• Hope is optimism with a broken heart

• What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Habermas on colonisation of the lifeworld

• Recovering critique in an age of datafication

• Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

• A theory of learning for the future: the realist concept of reflexivity and the pragmatist concept of experience

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster