This Sociological Life

My latest book is out today.

Some critical scholars and activists have engaged with the notion of ‘ridicule as praxis’ in the attempt to undermine and fight back against Big AI’s hype (Bender & Hanna, 2025).

Edited on 15 August 2026 to share the link to the recording of this event for those who might like to watch the very lively discussion we had!

My latest zine using critical collaging takes inspiration from surreal art.

Why I object to and reject generative AI*: the enshittification of learning, educating, thinking, writing and researching, and the loss of cognitive skills and development in those who use these technologies the slop and inaccuracies (‘hallucinations’) th…

Image credit: Hand-crafted by me on Canva.

My next set of collages relating to AI have now been released as a PDF, ‘POP AI’, which can be printed out into a foldout zine (see pic below).

I have published a zine that draws on my ‘Visualising Generative AI With Collage’ project.

I am excited to announce that my latest book, Living Futures, has now gone into production and will be published by September 2026.

As part of my current collaging work commenting on the environmental and social impacts of GenAI, I have made a series that place data servers (the tech that is used in hyperscale data centres to store and process data) in incongruous places.