• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• Sex as the things we cannot say

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: The jagged frontier of agentive AI and the risks of sociological prompt injection

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

• Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

• 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

• Why we need a machine sociology #4: the relational configuration of agents determines their success

• Why we need a machine sociology #3: because the existing projects are absolutely fascinating

• We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

• Why we need a machine sociology #2: Moltbook is not the thing. Moltbook shows us what the thing is going to look like.

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• Unrequited meaning

• Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

• Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

• Why we need a machine sociology #1

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• A message in a bottle to the future machine god

• The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

• Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

• The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

• An army of assistants working while you sleep

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

• The enshittification of ChatGPT begins!

• The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

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

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• Social media firms actively undermine the relationship between content creators and their communities

• A room in the back of my mind

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

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

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

• “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?

• How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

• 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

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

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

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

• Lovely review of Generative AI for Academics

• 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

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

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

• Where I end and you begin

• Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

• A Lacanian analysis of asexuality

• Some sociological thoughts on responsible AI

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

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

• Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• Call For Papers & Registration: Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction

• CfP: Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference

• The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• The neurotic individual and the group

• New paper – ‘Views expressed here are my own and not those of the university’: social media policies in UK higher education institutions

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

• Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

• Please bro, we’re so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

• When Lacan came to America

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• The cultural logic of AI slop: the example of AI-produced motivational videos

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

• Living on the Other’s time

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Something will always be lacking

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction