Last Thursday I attended a showing of a documentary on the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. After the film, there was a concert where Ida Bach Jensen, who composed the score for the film, performed. It was a magic 40 minutes, and it gave me time to digest some of the themes and thoughts of Ekelöfs [...]
I’ve started a new writing project over at the Borgerlyst blog. It is a longer essay on the development of democracy. Of course, there is no one model and understanding of democracy that can match all of the ideas that are related to democracy. So I’m trying to focus on a Danish context (the essay [...]
I completely forgot to mention this here. But it is definitely still worth mentioning: My remix of Kevin Kelly’s book Out of Control has been published as a kindle ebook on Amazon. Kevin Kelly contacted me last summer to hear if I’d be willing to have the remix published for the Kindle, and I said [...]
So, last week I posted my remix of Kevin Kelly’s book “Out of Control”. And soon after putting the remix online, I sent a note with a link to Kevin Kelly to make him aware of the remix, hoping that he would approve. He did approve. Much more than I expected. And it didn’t take [...]
This summer, I read Kevin Kelly‘s book Out of Control. It is a fascinating book full of fascinating ideas reaching across the board from artificial intelligence, evolution, biology, ecology, robotics and more to explore complexity, cybernetics and self-organising systems in an accessible and engaging way. But as I read the book, I also found it [...]
Following the INDEX conference, I got to thinking a bit more about how the designers posited design as an unquestionable good to be used to solve the many problems of the 21st century. But what is good design? How do you know when you’ve found it? Well, this summer I read Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and [...]
While in Italy, I took two pictures of a wine bottle. Not in itself particularly remarkable, just a study of much the light affects what we see.
I just went through some of my old stuff, and came across my old articles for the University of Copenhagen Institute of Anthropology magazine known as “Den Vilde Tanke” – which is the Danish translation of the French La Pensée Sauvage. I helped with the layout, editing and writing for most of my first 3 [...]
Following the recent discussion of anthropology and religion, I dug out one of my old anthropology essays which I did at the end of my first year at university – now almost 5 years ago. It was called “The Meaning of Life – A critical essay” and as I reread it, with some vague memory [...]
After having mucked with this “mystory” assignment for ages, including tackling the dreaded browser compatibility issue, I’ve finally decided that enough is enough – and that it is time to show it off. The project is called Qmail, and as the attached “about” page states, it is “a remix, rehash or remake of my life [...]