• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• Conduits for variety

• The necessity of selection

• The digital avoidance of difference

• the tinderization of everyday life

• digital distraction and human concern 

• Individual biography and the spatial distribution of variety (or, what the sociological imagination looks like to a critical realist)

• Theorising Heterogeneity for Sociology