• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• A list of human cognitive biases and the assumptions underpinning them

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Societal collapse is a process rather an event

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• On learning what matters to us

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• The looming crisis in higher education

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world

• Shock as a narrative vacuum

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• Using ChatGPT to fix spreadsheets

• On platform and agency

• In defence of the lecture

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• ChatGPT’s advice on examining student essays for evidence of generative AI

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter

• Call for Proposals – Posthumanism and Media Studies

• CfP: The Realist Approach to AI

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• Who does the thinking? The role of generative AI in higher education

• 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