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Recent Posts
- Article about tvättstugas in The Conversation
- Doing Less Happily Ever After
- Green Bullshit Jobs
- New Project: Investigating Doing Less in Everyday Life (IDLE)
- Slow Science and Work-Life Balance
- Unsustainably clean and smooth
- New research shows that consuming less makes us more happy- some NYE opinions in SydSvenskan
- Don’t let flying for work become normal again
- Why don’t we care that the ultra-rich are fucking up our climate?
- The girl gang that vanished
- Laconia – living alone consumption impact – Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions
- Music festivals can show the way to sustainability – debate article in Dagens Nyheter
- En halstvätthistoria av Annika Rullgård
- Hackademia
- Response to my research
- Varför duscha vi så ofta? Jag pratar renlighetsnormer med Lena Nordlund på Vetenskapsradion
- Respons på en artikel i svd
- The disappearing communal laundry room in Sweden: a symptom of individual comforts winning over sustainability?
- Climate smart in the 50s
- Blog Post on Extinction Rebellion for LUCSUS
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Slaves to devices
We are as close to telepathy as we’ve ever come. Thanks to mass communication we can call, message, chat, flick, swipe, poke, follow, talk to any number of people. We can let others know what we are thinking. And find … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, attention, convenience, devices, experience, modern, phones, slaves, social media, technology, WORLD
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All Finns are created equal
Greetings from Helsinki, land of The Moomintrolls, endless light and… hardcore egalitarianism. I’ve had the pleasure of talking to some lovely Finnish people these past few days, and they’ve all conveyed a jubilant sense of equality/incredulous claustrophobia of classed societies. Finns have long … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, egalitarianism, equal, Finland, Kela Maternity Package, progressive, social policy
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Big Data is watching
I’ve spent the last two days at a Socialising Big Data workshop at the futuristic IT University Copenhagen. Big Data is one of those trendy all encompassing buzz-words that  refers to the proliferation of data gathered everyday on all … Continue reading
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Tagged big brother, Big Data, equality, gender, hegemony, power, surveillance state, Sweden, transparency
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Perfection is so…
… much a part of the globalising, accelerating, glossy-media-saturated world we live in. We are bombarded with images of impossibly flawless faces, bodies, homes, food… Celebrity aside, my Facebook stream is incessantly flooded by perfectly smiling friends, going on perfectly exotic holidays, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobé, Anna Karenina, Beyoncé, confidence, facebook, life, Marilyn Monroe, Perfection, Queen B, success
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Beyoncé dances nearly naked on beach
I’ve been wanting to post this since December. I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Most of me wants to dismiss it as the music industry sexualising yet another female artist. But it’s one of my top … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, Beyoncé, Dancing on the beach, Drunk in Love, feminism, misogyny
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Bruno Latour’s new project to facilitate Grass-roots Universalism with the help of 5 handsome white men.
Yesterday Bruno Latour, fêted french sociologist, doyen of Actor Network Theory and charming man about Paris, presented his new research project, An Inquiry Into The Modes Of Existence (AIME), to a distinguished gathering of academics at Copenhagen Business School. The collaborative research … Continue reading
Rushing: a waste of time?
One of my favourite parts of immersing in Swedish culture is the sauna. Sweating in hot cedar and then dipping in the cold North Sea with the old dames of malmö has become somewhat of a mid-week ritual. One I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged David Graeber, life, Research, rush, rushing, what's the point if we can't have fun
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Christmas Turkey
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Tagged holiday photos, Istanbul, likya yolu, lycian way, Turkey
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Money
For the first time in my life I have a stable job. Which means for the first time in my life I have a stable income. Which also means, that for the very first time in my life, I have … Continue reading