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The making of Foucault
How do thinkers happen?
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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.
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Dave Beer
The bubble
The end of the iPod and the shifting limits of cultural consumption
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Dave Beer
A brief thought on the recursive society
The problem of the repeated algorithmic looping of the social (and data coiling)
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Dave Beer
Memory sticks
An enduring attachment to digital materiality
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Dave Beer
19 very brief thoughts on writing
Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.
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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
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Dave Beer
AI as extraction
Materiality and power in Kate Crawford’s recent book...
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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…
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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.
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Dave Beer
More letters
On crafting and words
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Dave Beer
Is it the internet?
‘Oh, how I wish…everyone everywhere would read this.’ Not my words, the words of Stephen Fry.
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Dave Beer
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