• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• Life asks us to mourn each passing incarnation of the self

• What do you need to become who you are?

• Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

• Calm creation that in opening closes, often ceases by starting

• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was

• The enjoyment of turmoil

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• Nick Cave on the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• On learning what matters to us

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Philosophers as situated in space and time, trying to muddle their way through

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

• Becoming who we are 

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Conduits for variety

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• Towards a Sociology of the Good Life

• The gaps in which being human happens

• There was no ‘I’ to do it, because the ‘I’ was the result

• Actor centred sociology

• And almost six years later it was finished…

• The Ontology of Human Relations and Biographical Entanglement (CC @TGJBrock)

• My PhD in 60 seconds

• Becoming Who We Are: theorising personal morphogenesis in a changing world

• Crisis and personal morphogenesis

• Becoming Who We Are: Social Relations and Personal Morphogenesis

• Personal Morphogenesis – modelling the ‘moments’ of biography

• A quick post on attachement theory and my PhD

• My PhD in 60 seconds