Filed under: Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
March 8, 2010A brief excursion into the muddy waters of Urban Exploration, where actions have no consequences and chronic community-driven denial somehow managed to both kill the curiosity of the audience – as well as the cat.
The revenge of rural politics, some dead wolves and a whole lot of explaining covered in an unsavoury, layered cake of lies, mistrust, disinformation and sheer nationwide hatred make up the ingredients for this pretty, modern little fairytale of how the hunter set out for the kill of his life.
Filed under: Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
January 19, 2010What happens when the denizens of the internet confuse learning with the fast-paced, picnoleptic state of browsing for real learning? These are some notes and thoughts on why tribal learning is indeed a poor idea for advancing a modern society.
A discussion regarding any new technology, including the subject of e-book readers, is incomplete without what Neil Postman once brought into the theory of evolving societies: What is apparent yet overlooked whenever we bring new technology into play is that the one-eyed prophets of technological invention rush into things with their aim set on what the new toy can do – while completely forgetting what it may undo.
Not that long ago I stumbled onto a blogpost by one of the leading (not my words) Swedish authorities on… Well. Everything digital really. He published a quick number on the future of readingpads, like Amazon’s Kindle, say. He prophecied that it would surely make the most wanted christmas gift of the 2010. But. What to expect from a tech savvy blog but evangelism, right?
Filed under: Crowdfunding / Culture / Featured / Theory
November 18, 2009Crowdsourcing, or crowding, is the popular term for creating things together, usually with the net as hub. The process is mediated by the vast amount of collaborate, sociodynamically instituted tools available to the general public. Of late, we’re being led to believe that this process is the panaceum for all of those pesky creative ills we’ve all been waiting for.
Filed under: Art / Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
November 13, 2009Given the modern trends in media, and for intents and purposes, academia (much the same thing, really) – the modern art critic has turned into the obedient soldier of whatever politically correct trend currently prevails. These advance patrols of unreason will typically establish all art as a function of gender, race and class.
Filed under: Featured / Introspection / Music / Theory
October 29, 2009By chance, or RSS, I can upon an interview by my long standing favorite, David Sylvian. Having recently released the much-debated record, “Manafon”, he explains in a precise yet leisurely manner his view on his own work.
Many of my peers, the postmodern internet social media professionals, inasmuch as they can be labelled like that, seem to looking so deep into the social media bucket that they are at risk of losing focus on the matter at hand.
Filed under: Introspection / Sniper / Theory
September 21, 2009Reflecting on the way humans grow there seems to be two main paths.
Filed under: Theory
August 26, 2009“All this time we got the fable of sleeping beauty wrong”.
“Men go crazy in congregations, but they only get better one by one”.
Succinct and sharp take on Tarantino, provided by Andres Lokko (Swedish media).
Understanding why halfwits such as Brad Pitt and exoskeleton wife Angelina Jolie can effectively reintroduce colonialism in Namibia.
I remember a psychology column where a young girl asked the editor what she could do to help her 91-year old grandmother in the final stages of her life. Her granny had become ethereal, incoherent and calm. The young girl was at a loss towards the old womans complacency. The editor responded that it was [...]
What should have been a brief essay on why exactly it is that I find functionalism such a debasing and human-loathing structure turned into a comparison of polish and american movie posters. Polish poster art has always been a very different ballgame.
As the music slowed I realised that it was the perfect setting for that particular song.
I have listened to it for over 20 years, but none of the previous times had even come close to mimicking the setting that song needed.
It made me think about growing pains. The sensation of growing and the things we [...]
Filed under: Theory
June 22, 2009Overnight many of my contacts on the Twitterlist have turned their icons into green in support of the democratic process in Iran. That may all be right and well, but I can’t help but wonder exactly how many of these highly incidental supporters have actually bothered to find out what it really is they are [...]
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all honesty, there are but a few works of art that modern people interested in understanding their own lives should at least have a perpetual glance at. And no – I’m not talking about any self-help books or DYI-checklists. That stuff [...]