The world’s first (?!) professorship in Fashion The main owner of Swedish fashion store-chain H&M, Stefan Persson, is investing in making fashion an academic discipline in Sweden, through funding Stockholm University with €3 million during a seven-year period. The money … Continue reading
The harsh legal stronghold besieging our digital commons, that leading European politicians are currently arguing for, is not only putting the personal integrity of citizens at risk – it is also symptomatic for how allegedly democratic measures can in effect be jeopardizing democracy. What is worse, it is a strategy which cannot keep what it promises, thus amounting to hypocrisy. Continue reading
I had a good evening: I’ve just been to an exclusive lecture by Brian Eno. A persona of rare brilliancy in pop music, Eno might make music with the clamour and excess of wallpaper but he is a public speaker … Continue reading
Blackboard drawing: Brian Eno Btw, writing about Eno reminded me of this rarely noticed fact: Rock music as we know it is partially Muslim. Jonathan Curiel writes about the Muslim roots of the blues; What Americans now think of as … Continue reading
OK, I don’t want to fall into the choir of salutations over Morrissey’s re-vitalized career. I rarely listen to his music anymore, and if I do, his cover of “Moon River” really does more for me rather than the muscular … Continue reading
Xenophobic Danish party leader Pia Kjærsgaard burst out into (the usual) swaggering exclamation recently, because of thoughtless Egyptian tabloid journalists vilifying Denmark. Sadly, this lead her to reply that muslims in Denmark would be ‘traitors’: “In this country there is … Continue reading
Newsweek gives their update on Sweden, and they maintain an in my view impressively up-to-date image, similar to the one presented by the World Economic Forum in their recent Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006. But amid the praise — since the … Continue reading
English
Svenska