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The mystery...
of AI
Apr 1, 2023
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Dave Beer
March 2023
Writing at 1600 beats per day
A note on Haruki Murakami's Novelist as a Vocation
Mar 3, 2023
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Dave Beer
February 2023
In the TLS...
Data ownership, Hilary Mantel, In Writing podcast and a social media job.
Feb 23, 2023
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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
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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’. He was developing the…
Jan 20, 2023
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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.
Jan 6, 2023
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Dave Beer
Writing with uncertainty
Making the case for not quite knowing what you are doing
Jan 2, 2023
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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
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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
Dec 1, 2022
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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. The various reports of large scale job…
Nov 17, 2022
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Dave Beer
Loose ends...
Writing digressions and fragments of culture (plus a music playlist)
Nov 11, 2022
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Dave Beer
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…
Sep 20, 2022
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Dave Beer
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