• Fortressing up for the coming storm

• The slow diminishment of life on a dying planet and its implications for social theory

• Does techno have signifiers?

• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• The beginnings have already begun

• The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

• So I stayed in the darkness with you

• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• What is happening when we desire to watch or read something?

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Expanding the very possibilities of being

• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

• The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

• Olivia Laing on recovery

• There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back. Well, tell her that I miss our little talks

• On no longer being a trainee group analyst

• Freud on the psychic rewards of sublimation

• A psychoanalytical theory of thirdness

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

• Our pasts are a poem that we have to learn to recite

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• The murdering of possibility to regulate our suffering

• Melancholia and creativity

• Is there a psychoanalytical concept for how one frustration can be a synecdoche for frustration as such?

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• Nietzsche and Nick Cave

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• Glow

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

• The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

• The jouissance of writing

• Life asks us to mourn each passing incarnation of the self

• Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way

• Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

• Why do we want what we want?

• Who we are arises from how we have been hurt

• The realist concept of concern and the Lacanian concept of desire

• The utter banality of getting what you fantasise about

• AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

• Heidegger on Lacan: “It seems to me the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist”

• Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

• And you can’t fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

• LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

• I did a half marathon in a storm yesterday

• Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

• The objects which haunt us

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• Sex as the things we cannot say

• If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

• The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

• Stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being

• The libidinal character of speaking in public

• The influence of Kojève on Lacan

• We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

• Unrequited meaning

• Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• Ask ChatGPT to generate an image of how you have treated it recently

• to drag it out and to make it echo and to get involved and to fall in love

• A room in the back of my mind

• I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• Why do we choose the cultural objects that we choose?

• “I’ve got a feeling that I could be someone”

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• What is a mood?

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• What do you need to become who you are?

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

• What is a ‘true self’ and what is a ‘false self’?

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

• Where I end and you begin

• Some sociological thoughts on group analysis

• A Lacanian analysis of asexuality

• At some point you had to pick a direction and start swimming: the philosophical anthropology of commitment

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older