• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

• What is AI criticism for?

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• What happens when the AI bubble pops?

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The embodied experience of writing

• Prompting as a literary practice

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

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

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

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

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

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

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• Fully automated luxury universities

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Chat-GPT as a bullshit engine

• The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

• How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

• Artificial intelligence as the perfect servant

• Robot, experience this tragic irony for me

• The birth of machinology

• Provincialising disruption

• CfP: The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies

• CfP: AI, Robotics and Responsibility