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Interview with Georges Perec

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Richard Beard

Georges, Georges Perec, is that you? No. Come on, Georges, this is the first time I’ve summoned spirits from the dead.  Would you consider giving me an interview? No. Georges, I have a Ouija board here on a small table in front of me, and my Reading Group holding hands in a deep trance. I […]

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Universal Turing Machine Q & A

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Richard Beard

The first phase of the Universal Turing Machine is now available to read free online. ‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant,’ Lily Dunn, author of Into Being; The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform. ‘There are many clever people out there, doing clever things, but it takes great skill to capture the true […]

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Universal Turing Machine in TLS

Posted on July 8, 2025August 19, 2025 by Richard Beard

All the Right Moves While people in the world of books, as in so many others, continue to suffer from the dull and ecologically unsound deployment of artificial intelligence, the writer Richard Beard has got on with doing something defiant. Mr Beard launched his Universal Turing Machine on June 23, the anniversary of Alan Turing’s […]

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Universal Turing Machine

Posted on June 23, 2025September 14, 2025 by Richard Beard

‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant, outwitting computer technology by remaining one step ahead, always, in what can be read and in what order. There are many clever people out there, doing clever things, but it takes great skill to capture the true magic of memory and of lived experience. The Universal Turing Machine does that.’ […]

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