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Writing at 1600 beats per day
A note on Haruki Murakami's Novelist as a Vocation
Dave Beer
Mar 3
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February 2023
In the TLS...
Data ownership, Hilary Mantel, In Writing podcast and a social media job.
Dave Beer
Feb 23
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Two very short stories
Tales of the Unconnected (Part 1)
Dave Beer
Feb 17
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January 2023
An impression of pop music
A visual (and short) account of the language of number 1 songs over seven decades
Dave Beer
Jan 31
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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’. He was developing the…
Dave Beer
Jan 20
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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.
Dave Beer
Jan 6
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Writing with uncertainty
Making the case for not quite knowing what you are doing
Dave Beer
Jan 2
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December 2022
Thinking about some books etc
A crisis of the imagination, Orwell’s reviewing style and some reading matter
Dave Beer
Dec 19, 2022
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The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking is here
News of my new book and a discount code for subscribers to this newsletter
Dave Beer
Dec 1, 2022
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November 2022
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. The various reports of large scale job…
Dave Beer
Nov 17, 2022
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Loose ends...
Writing digressions and fragments of culture (plus a music playlist)
Dave Beer
Nov 11, 2022
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September 2022
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…
Dave Beer
Sep 20, 2022
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