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William Davies

teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Wellbeing.

Essays & Reviews

The Data Sublime

By William DaviesJanuary 12, 2015
The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination.
Essays & Reviews

Shame: A Durkheimian Take

By William DaviesMarch 27, 2012
Steve McQueen's Shame is a lament for a culture that can't discover a legitimate limit to egoism
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