The Fragment
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
About
Latest
Top
The making of Foucault
How do thinkers happen?
Sep 8, 2021
•
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
The bubble
The end of the iPod and the shifting limits of cultural consumption
May 26, 2022
•
Dave Beer
A brief thought on the recursive society
The problem of the repeated algorithmic looping of the social (and data coiling)
Nov 3, 2021
•
Dave Beer
Memory sticks
An enduring attachment to digital materiality
Feb 23, 2021
•
Dave Beer
19 very brief thoughts on writing
Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.
Mar 31, 2022
•
Dave Beer
The Data Problem
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
Sep 21, 2021
•
Dave Beer
AI as extraction
Materiality and power in Kate Crawford’s recent book...
Jan 20, 2022
•
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…
Sep 20, 2022
•
Dave Beer
Why the metaverse will never happen
It is far too early to suggest that this is the beginning of the end for Facebook.
Feb 9, 2022
•
Dave Beer
More letters
On crafting and words
Mar 12, 2021
•
Dave Beer
Is it the internet?
‘Oh, how I wish…everyone everywhere would read this.’ Not my words, the words of Stephen Fry.
Apr 20, 2022
•
Dave Beer
Share
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts