art – Accounting for Humanity

16th Jan 2026

Goldilocks and the three research conundrums

As I find myself now nearly 8 months out from my PhD (or the viva anyway), I am becoming ever more aware of the difficulty in choosing direction. For me it feels like there is a mysterious dilemma in research, there is this line somewhere that, one one side, you stay centred and become an

Promethean ShAIme: Are people the problem with AI?

Over the last 7(ish) years, I have both researched and observed our growing relationship with AI. Now, while I have not extended the particular observations I am about to discuss in any official or robust research capacity (hence it is in my unpublished ponderings), I have become increasingly aware that that a big problem with

Ornament and Crime, Creativity in Academia

After spending the last few months working on a theoretical paper that will eventually (eventually being now, as I plan to return to the task after this post) my PhD theory chapter. I have been thinking a lot about how ‘academic’ writing is defined and, if creativity has a place in academic writing. Ornament and