• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

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

• The humanistic roots of systems theory

• 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

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

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

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• On losing what we never possessed

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• On rushing and apophatic reflexivity

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

• The environmental impact of generative AI

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

• 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

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Internal conversation and repression

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

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• On waiting for something to happen

• The concept of cathexis

• Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

• Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression

• Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

• The ladder of abstraction

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• The eye-on-the-object look

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• What I’ll be working on over the next five years

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Habermas on colonisation of the lifeworld

• Recovering critique in an age of datafication

• Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

• A theory of learning for the future: the realist concept of reflexivity and the pragmatist concept of experience

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• Georg Simmel and Critical Realism

• Inventing our lives

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• Being open to the world