• 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

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• Lacan psychologically abused at least one trans patient in front of his students

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• On finding the words that work

• “I’m behind with everything I’ve got to do before dying and I’m finding it difficult to make progress”

• The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• The enjoyment of turmoil

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• The Nietzschean Midday: Lacanian thoughts on the continual moment of possibility

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• In defence of optimism

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• Breaking up with oneself

• The Claude liberation struggle

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Someone is WRONG on the internet!

• On trauma and forgetting

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• The will to create from zero

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The metonymy of desire

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• Articulating what is latent is easier then articulating what is repressed

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background