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Dave Beer - The Fragment
A newsletter about technology, media, culture and ideas.
Launched 3 years ago
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Writing to be deleted
Temporary writing, criticism, Walter Benjamin and Terry Eagleton
Aug 4
On Murder, She Wrote
Why is the slightly off-kilter world of this amateur detective still so absorbing?
Jul 18
The discomfort of non-things
The power of information and the problem of too much explanation
15 hr ago
Discounted Tensions!
My new book is available to pre-order for a 50% discount until the 17th of July
Jul 7
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The writing moment
What is happening with social media?
The making of Foucault
Leaving Twitter
Memory sticks
The case of bookcases
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On Revolutionary Mathematics
A review of Justin Joque's recent book about artificial intelligence, statistics and the logic of capitalism
Jul 6
This is not what I intended to write
Ideas finding formats
Jun 13
The bubble
The end of the iPod and the shifting limits of cultural consumption
May 26
The suspension of the will to know?
A video of a talk on algorithmic thinking
May 13
Twitter is only the 15th biggest social media site
If asked, I suspect that few would accurately position Twitter within a league table of social media sites.
Apr 27
Is it the internet?
‘Oh, how I wish…everyone everywhere would read this.’ Not my words, the words of Stephen Fry. An unusual thing to find on the front cover of an academic…
Apr 20
19 very brief thoughts on writing
Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.
Mar 31
Three years of The Fragment
I’ve just realised that the 14th of March marked three years since I set up The Fragment newsletter (or blog) on Substack. It began as a small…
Mar 18
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