• Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• On playing well and making yourself heard

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

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• The embodied experience of writing

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

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

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

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• ⚡️ The God War: my first attempt at Marvel fan fiction

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• How to free associate

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

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

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

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

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

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

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• How to enjoy writing #16: don’t impose a shape on things too quickly

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

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

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes