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

• “I’m going to Paris, not France”: language models as compulsive meaning makers

• How visible are you in the LLM?

• Are LLM-written Substacks getting out of hand?

• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• What do staff need to be ready for AI integration? 

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

• What is AI criticism for?

• Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

• 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

• Naturalism in the study of LLMs

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

• LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

• The rapid rise of social gatherings conceived and enacted by LLMs

• The platitudes about generative AI in higher education are getting tedious

• The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

• Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

• The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: the internet will soon be filled with lost and confused LLMs

• Why we need a machine sociology #3: because the existing projects are absolutely fascinating

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

• A few heuristics for responsible use of LLMs

• Why we need a machine sociology #1

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

• Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

• An army of assistants working while you sleep

• Satya Nadella’s fantasy economics of LLMs

• Are LLMs parasites?

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

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

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

• Using LLMs for activism

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

• When LLMs help each other

• What will it feel like in the future to lose access to LLMs?

• What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

• Why we need a better critical theory of LLMs

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Agentive LLMs and the coming wave of ad tech

• The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’

• 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

• The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered

• Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

• A relational sociology of large language models in education

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• 4 reasons why Copilot is a poor alternative to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• The doom loops of generative AI

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• Taking the AGI pill

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing