• 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

• 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?