• On no longer being a trainee group analyst

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• “It was the first time in my life where I felt an escape from my head”

• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

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

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• The ceaseless interpellation of digital capitalism

• a relational theory of addiction 

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience