• 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

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• On dance notation

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• Claude 3 is astonishingly fluent in theorising its own path to super-intelligence

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• ChatGPT’s attempts to circumvent copyright law are getting incredibly creative

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• Codependency as Team Neurosis

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• Intuition as social theory

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• The next wave of GAI: the digital daemon is coming soon

• Digital-first scholarship

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

• “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• CFP: Generative AI Governance – Special Issues in Information, Communication & Society

• How do we visualise an assemblage?

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

• The GAI-driven future of the book