Dave Beer - The Fragment
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The problem lurking at the heart of the UK Government’s emerging data strategy and what it tells us about the wider future of data usage
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How do thinkers happen? We can start with a quite obvious negative. It would seem that they don't arrive fully formed or with a preset direction to the…
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Writing is rarely current-like, it is nearly always tidal. You can create the conditions and put in the effort, yet it seems to arrive mostly on its ow…
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Realism or escapism. The choice seems particularly stark at the moment. Defying these poles of creative gravity, The Coral’s expansive new double-album…
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Perhaps there is something impersonal about personalisation. With the focus often being on the rapid networking and targeted filtering of social media,…
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On Derrida, deconstructing music, streaming and a bit more on social media memories.
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Its publication week for our new book Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past
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On crafting and words
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An enduring attachment to digital materiality
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What is revealed when we look at the biggest companies in the world?
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On why sonic emotion tracking misses the point, the new models of content moderation, clubhouses and the presses.
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On Fredric Jameson's new book on the works of Walter Benjamin.
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