• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

• Generative AI, the threat of automation and the treatment/diagnosis link

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Podcast: the future of the post-pandemic university

• 9 ways to use use conversational agents as a tool for thinking rather than a substitute for thought

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• Using generative AI to summarise conversations in order to feed them into future projects

• The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Generative AI and the frictionless digital brain

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

• “I think if you start writing a book and you don’t feel as if you’re drowning it’s not worth doing”

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• The impending automation of grant writing

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• The humanistic roots of systems theory

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family

• Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

• ChatGPT: analyse Margaret Archer’s four modes of reflexivity in terms of Lacanian theory

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Walking in the air

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• How can academics use ChatGPT to make their work easier?

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• Fully automated luxury universities

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• The Entangled Forest

• On losing what we never possessed

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• On rushing and apophatic reflexivity

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 

• On walking at dusk

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Internal conversation and repression

• Learned societies and national conferences

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”