Per Widén

@perwiden.bsky.social

Idéhistoriker, Konstvetare, Pappa. Gift med världens bästa enligt min fru. En av huvudkällorna till Wikipedias artikel om marsvin. Ny bok i december 2025: Att skapa en patriotisk historia. (http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:2026571)

FB påminner om att det är 14 år sedan jag och dåvarande vännen - nuvarande hustrun - mötte en grävling på väg hem från bion. En formativ händelse i vår relation. 🙂 🦡

Bara så att alla är på det klara: Uppfattningen att människor som jag som gillar frihet & rörlighet är rasförrädare som borde ställas mot en vägg är ingenting som Jomshof bara råkade twittra om på fyllan. Det är en central del av Sverigedemokraternas ideologi, och något som människor röstar för.

Nya Liljevalchs är en intressant byggnad. Ganska överväldigande på nära håll, men oväntat diskret och väl inpassad från Skeppsholmen. Synd bara att den är helt värdelös som utställningslokal. Hattig, fragmentarisk och oöverskådlig, och med märkliga tillgänglighetsproblem.

Konsthallen Liljevalchs nya betongtillbyggnad på Djurgården i Stockholm, sedd från Skeppsholmens strand.

Gomorron till alla som var med och minns 2015 inte som det kris-år politiken skrivit om det till utan som ett år av bred solidaritet då svennebananer samlades i massor för att möta och hjälpa flyktingarna som kom till tågstationen, höll nationella galor och lokala insamlingar.

2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1

The part of the Bologna Station building that collapsed seen from the outside with rescue workers digging through the rubble.Rubble and rescue workers on Platform 1 of Bologna Station following the bomb attack.The collapsed structure of the waiting room and cafeteria of Bologna Station following the explosion.A view of the aftermath of the bombing from a nearby building.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Jokes aside, I see people go "I think I'm trans but I'm not gonna address it because of all the difficult stuff, what would I get out of it?" And the answer is true joy. That's what you get out of it. Unless you face yourself, fully and completely, and know who you are, you will never find true joy.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Suggesting that a woman university professor who is the author of a best-selling translation should have been “kinder” or “more professional” to a male director who has had multiple successful films is both misogyny and willfully ignorant of power dynamics

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Gårdagens kulturupplevelse var förövrigt de fyra männen i 70-årsåldern på Orsayran som spelade en cover på ”Stand by your man”, men med svensk text som gick helt på tvärs med originalet! ”Släng ut din man, visa den fan på dörren. Han är ju ingenting att ha. Släng ut din ma-an”! 🙂

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

I don't mean he came out came out, but I think Jasper Johns came out of the gate a lot hotter than he gets credit for, and that Target with Plaster Casts in particular would benefit from considering the Johns/Rauschenberg/Twombly artistic context it was made in in 1955. greg.org/archive/2026...

jasper johns target with plaster casts is a yellow and blue target on a red background, all in textured encaustic collage, with a shelf/cupboard structure on top with nine little individual compartments, each with its own wooden lid. the lids here are open, which is how johns liked them. like lucky charms each compartment has its own shape and color, a plaster cast of a body part painted in purple, blue white red pink orange green and dark purple? i can't remember, but the green one is a penis, and that got everyone worked up. this painting is owned by david geffen

On the way to London Trans+ Pride I was asked by an older lady what everyone was there for. "Oh, it's Trans Pride." "Wasn't Pride earlier this month?" "No, that's Pride In London; this is Pride for trans people, and it's more of a protest." She couldn't understand why it was a protest.

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past