The Fragment

April 2023

The mystery...

of AI

Apr 1, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

March 2023

Writing at 1600 beats per day

A note on Haruki Murakami's Novelist as a Vocation

Mar 3, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

February 2023

In the TLS...

Data ownership, Hilary Mantel, In Writing podcast and a social media job.

Feb 23, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

January 2023

An impression of pop music

A visual (and short) account of the language of number 1 songs over seven decades

Jan 31, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

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’.

Jan 20, 2023 • 

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.

Jan 6, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

Writing with uncertainty

Making the case for not quite knowing what you are doing

Jan 2, 2023 • 

Dave Beer

December 2022

Thinking about some books etc

A crisis of the imagination, Orwell’s reviewing style and some reading matter

Dec 19, 2022 • 

Dave Beer

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking is here

News of my new book and a discount code for subscribers to this newsletter

Dec 1, 2022 • 

Dave Beer

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.

Nov 17, 2022 • 

Dave Beer

Loose ends...

Writing digressions and fragments of culture (plus a music playlist)

Nov 11, 2022 • 

Dave Beer