• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• An ultra-minimalist blogging platform

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

• All trauma is preverbal

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• The friendly face of objet petit a

• Burdened by the image of an unalienated future, one finds oneself fleeing from existence itself

• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• The best resource on Lacan I’ve encountered so far

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• Those whom we transform into myth are themselves myth-ridden

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• The more I consider the world, the more I realize that it’s supposed to have a cohesion that no longer exists

• On being sane in insane places

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• I just discovered Therapist Reaction YouTube and I can’t stop watching it

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• On getting what you want

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionise Everything, by Matthew Ball

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• Playing in the ruins of your past expectations

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine