Dave Beer - The Fragment

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Three difficulties with writing in this time of upheaval
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Amongst the detail, the recent Online Nation report reveals the direction in which social media seem to be heading. The visual is becoming increasingly…
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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…
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I decided to leave Twitter. It was a cumulative thing. Since I joined, I've had an ambivalent relationship with the platform. I was never quite sure. So…
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An enduring attachment to digital materiality
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Solitude-networking is throwing up lots of new visual cues, especially as we see inside people's homes. The now prominent genre of…
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The problem of the repeated algorithmic looping of the social (and data coiling)
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Materiality and power in Kate Crawford’s recent book...
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Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.
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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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On crafting and words
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For over a decade now social media have been turning our interactions into data. Once relations, dialogue and connections are abstracted into data, they…
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