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Category: Essays and other experiments

She staggers to stay upright

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 …

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1 Comment on She staggers to stay uprightMay 16, 2012May 16, 2012 By Andreas

The development of democracy

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 …

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Leave a Comment on The development of democracyMarch 5, 2012March 5, 2012 By Andreas

Bootstrapping Complexity on Amazon

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 …

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Leave a Comment on Bootstrapping Complexity on AmazonJanuary 17, 2012July 23, 2015 By Andreas

Bootstrapping complexity

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 …

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3 Comments on Bootstrapping complexitySeptember 22, 2009July 23, 2015 By Andreas

Out of control – remixed

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. …

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1 Comment on Out of control – remixedSeptember 13, 2009July 23, 2015 By Andreas

Does design equal quality ?

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 …

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2 Comments on Does design equal quality ?September 10, 2007September 12, 2007 By Andreas

A matter of lighting

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.

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1 Comment on A matter of lightingAugust 3, 2007August 3, 2007 By Andreas

Added old writings

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 …

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Leave a Comment on Added old writingsAugust 10, 2006August 8, 2011 By Andreas

Musings on the nature of religion

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 …

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1 Comment on Musings on the nature of religionMarch 22, 2006August 6, 2006 By Andreas

Quixotic Email

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, …

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Leave a Comment on Quixotic EmailNovember 8, 2005August 6, 2006 By Andreas

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