• 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

• 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