• 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

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

• Lacan on the trauma of birth

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

• Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

• What is sexual attraction? Some Lacanian thoughts on asexuality studies

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• Epistemic flooding

• We are not whole and we never will be

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• Not giving up on your own desire

• I had a dream, I got everything I ever wanted. But if I’m really honest it might have been a nightmare

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education