• “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

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• On being a mystery to ourselves

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• The sociological significance of TikTok

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Zupančič: How to live a life worth living

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

• Why did the Bluesky migration succeed where the Mastodon migration failed?

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• Lacan lecturing in English: Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject whatever

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way