• 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

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The future’s not what it used to be

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• I can’t steal you

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• The Role of Professional Bodies in the Development of Sociology

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• The hungry ghosts

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• If AI was like a hammer

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• ChatGPT: how can academics use the new voice conversation and image analysis features?

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

• Synthetic humans as research instruments

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• On returning to music

• Some notes on projectification

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism