Hjalmar Falk
@hjfalk.bsky.social
History of ideas and science, University of Gothenburg. Sometime critic, constant hylic.
This is not as good as the trilogy about his youth, but it’s still remarkably good (the recurring reports on visits to Berlin brothels, reflections on the prize of call girls, and inexplicable affairs with (very) young intellectual women (the man was in his 60s) notwithstanding).
very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”
Vilka bland nu aktiva svenska skribenter har enligt ditt förmenande bäst språkkänsla?
Eftersom jag den här semesterdagen mig själv till straff och androm till varnagel ägnat mig åt att agera både redaktör och kulturskribent har jag slitandes mitt hår och i mitt anletes svett börjat fundera över följande fråga (rt:a gärna):
Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer until you're the one calmly stating "we're encased in flame"
Jules Sherred (he/him)@geekyjules.julessherred.com · 3w agoKid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
RIP Kjell Nilsson AKA Lord Humungus, the Ayatollah of rock 'n rollah, King of the Desert. 1949-2026.
it’s long past time lawmakers addressed how companies have taken the switch to digital to redefine purchases as licensing rather than ownership. it’s most egregious when it comes to libraries, but it’s harmful to everyone.
Council of Geeks@councilofgeeks.bsky.social · last mo.Just a reminder that Playstation is the same company that, less than a week ago, removed 551 movie titles from people's accounts even if they were "purchased" and gave no refunds. They've already signaled they are not to be trusted with digital only products. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...
These are the people sneering at your degree and telling you to get a real job
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · last mo.Never underestimate how miserable British people want to be
On this day in 1982 both Bladerunner and The Thing were released in the US. Both flopped and were not received well. Both have gone on to be recognized as classics and have redefined their genres. I feel like today should be a holiday for lovers of movies and everyone who has ever failed.
Jag borde kanske ha läst den här förra sommaren efter att ha plockat med den hem från Berlin.
Nu är jag i mitt rätta element, alltså Centraleuropa (Krakow).
Det är ofattbart – och så väldigt talande – att dessa rapporter inte utlöser större harm och undersökningsvilja i västerländska medier och politiska rum.
Ali Esbati@aliesbati.bsky.social · 3mo agowww.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-... ”There is overwhelming evidence that the Israeli military is raping Palestinian detainees with dogs. We don’t just have repeated testimonies from Palestinians - but that of Israeli soldiers, too.”
The Dec 2025 election of José A Kast in Chile has been reported as yet another victory of the contemporary far right. Rather than an unexpected outlier, however, Kast's relation to Chile’s trajectory of neoliberal authoritarianism is a family tradition. Part 1 here. brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fiel...
The Ratline, Neoliberalism, and the New Right in Chile | The Brooklyn Rail
The following attempts to situate José Antonio Kast’s victory within the long trajectory of Chile’s violent neoliberalisation
brooklynrail.org
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL
Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 4mo agowww.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Read the introduction to this yesterday and learned that the aging Machiavelli referred to himself as “historico, comico et tragico” which means “historian, humorist and tragedian”, but ALSO means “historic, comic and tragic”… 🤣/😭
Er wurde als Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films und großer Gesellschaftsanalytiker bekannt. Später prägte er mit seiner Produktionsfirma das deutsche Privatfernsehen. Jetzt ist Alexander Kluge im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben.
Filmemacher und Autor Alexander Kluge ist tot
Er wurde als Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films und großer Gesellschaftsanalytiker bekannt. Später prägte er mit seiner Produktionsfirma das deutsche Privatfernsehen. Jetzt ist Alexander Kluge im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben.
spiegel.de
Alexander Kluge ist tot. Zwischen seinem ersten und letzten "Merkur"-Text lagen 53 Jahre. Man muss gewiss nicht zum "Merkur" greifen, um Texte des unfassbar produktiven (u.a.) Autors zu finden, aber man kann: Es gibt insgesamt elf (einige frei lesbar). www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/autoren/alex...
Alexander Kluge – MERKUR
Lesen Sie Artikel von Alexander Kluge in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR – Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
merkur-zeitschrift.de
Här är en artikel jag har skrivit för Lychnos om Rudolf Kjellén och ”den europeiska unghögern”. Öppet tillgänglig: tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view...
Rudolf Kjelléns nationalsocialism och den europeiska unghögerns tankestil | Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
tidskriftenlychnos.se
Financial markets are 'post-truth' media technologies and always have been. Keynes, Hayek, Lyotard, Mirowski etc etc etc have always known this. The rarity now is that their logic has penetrated to the heart of a very powerful modern government.