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After the algorithm?
130 years ago Emile Durkheim wrote of how the nature of work had the capacity to cause a ‘greater fatigue of the nervous system’.
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Dave Beer
Walter Benjamin and Mickey Mouse
Flicking through my five volume collection of Walter Benjamin’s complete writings I stumbled upon a curious fragment on Mickey Mouse.
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Dave Beer
Writing with uncertainty
Making the case for not quite knowing what you are doing
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Dave Beer
Thinking about some books etc
A crisis of the imagination, Orwell’s reviewing style and some reading matter
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Dave Beer
The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking is here
News of my new book and a discount code for subscribers to this newsletter
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Dave Beer
Platform austerity and small state social media
Given the endless stories of growth upon growth, cutbacks don’t sit comfortably in social media’s narrative arc.
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Dave Beer
Loose ends...
Writing digressions and fragments of culture (plus a music playlist)
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Dave Beer
Writing gaps
In what feels like a bit of a fallow writing period I gripped tightly to Irina Dumitrescu's brilliant reflections on productivity posted recently on her…
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Dave Beer
Loop the loop
Back to the recursive society and the looping of the social
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Dave Beer
The Fragment
The Fragment
writing on technologically mediated life
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