• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• The unacknowledged debt of Richard Rorty to the ethos of post-war Oxford philosophy

• On finding the words that work

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• Machine translation in higher education

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• Words are for those with promises to keep

• “The more closely you look at a word, the more distantly it stares back at you”

• Call for papers: gender, language and sexuality

• The Apostrophe Protection Society