• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• 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

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• Breaking up with oneself

• The Claude liberation struggle

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight? Judith Butler’s theory of social change

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

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• On temporising

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

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• The end is where we start from

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

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

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

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

• Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

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

• How the use of deepfakes will be legitimated

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• On AI therapy

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• The silent inner world

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• Margaret Archer’s Final Book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. Launch event on March 28th, 3pm GMT

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• E-mail based generative AI: a good idea badly executed

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Intuition as social theory

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• The next wave of GAI: the digital daemon is coming soon

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• A map of AI productivity tools

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it