• “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

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• Margaret Archer’s interest in reflexivity was there from 1979

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• The challenge of feral sociology

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• 📍Margaret Archer’s final book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• Margaret Archer’s final paper: Coincidence – A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• The impending reality of the digital daemon

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• The psychodynamics of the post-left

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• What are the analytical payoffs of Margaret Archer’s realist social theory?

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• Why did Giddens largely ignore Bourdieu?

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

• “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

• The existentialist Lacan

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• Are the economic shocks of 2021-2023 a temporary phenomenon?

• Platform capitalism, historciality and Andrew Abbott’s sense of modernist temporal ontology

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• Online reading group: Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• Generative AI for Academics

• The rise of sociophobia