• Intuition as social theory

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

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

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

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

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• 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

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

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

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

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

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

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

• Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

• 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?

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• 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?

• The impending reality of the digital daemon

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

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

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• Platform capitalism, historciality and Andrew Abbott’s sense of modernist temporal ontology

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

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

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• Synthetic humans as research instruments

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• Machine translation in higher education

• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Call for Proposals – Posthumanism and Media Studies

• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?