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Vinkkejä kirjamessuille

Helsingin kirjamessuilla on filosofista tematiikkaa tarjolla ylt쎃스kyllin aina urheilun etiikasta kulttuurilehtien historiaan. Pari t쎃스sm쎃스poimintaa: Perjantaina kello 14 Aleksis Kivi-lavalla julkaistaan EFS ry:n kustantama Mika Hannulan kirja Suomalaisuudesta – er쎃스쎃스n sukupolven tarina. Kirjassa kysyt쎃스쎃스n mist쎃스 puhumme kun puhumme Suomesta ja suomalaisuudesta? Kirja hahmottaa Suomea ja suomalaisuutta monikollisina k쎃스sittein쎃스, kriittisen refleksiivisin쎃스 v쎃스linein쎃스 pohtia keit쎃스 me olemme, miss쎃스 […]

Weil: Juurtuminen

Kaisa Kukkolan suomentama Simone Weilin Juurtuminen on ilmestynyt. Kyseess쎃스 on Euroopan tulevaisuus sotien j쎃스lkeen.

Brave new war

Author John Robb calls it by several names, 쎢얓4th generation war쎢슝, 쎢얓open source war쎢슝 and, in the title of the book, Brave New War. What he is talking about is the new kind of violence that we see being born in Afghanistan and Iraq, in Palestine and Western cities. The point is that now with […]

Tekniikan kääntelyä

Heidegger k쎃스쎃스ntelee tekniikkaa t쎃스ss쎃스 Vesa Jaaksin k쎃스쎃스nt쎃스m쎃스ss쎃스 parin esseen kokoelmassa. Klassikko, jos mik쎃스, nyt yksiss쎃스 kansissa suomeksi.

Uutta/Nouveaux! NuVatsia Podcast

Kokeillaanpa t쎃스t쎃스kin. Podcastin쎃스 t쎃스ss쎃스 ensiyrityksess쎃스 eilen Kustavissa Volter Kilpi -kirjallisuusviikolla pit쎃스m쎃스ni esitelm쎃스 otsikolla “Nurmij쎃스rvi ja Kustavi”. K쎃스sittelee siis Kiven Nurmij쎃스rve쎃스 ja Kilven Kustavia paikkakuntina, ennen ja nyt, esimerkkein쎃스 suomalaisen identiteetin rakennuksista.

Jelinek publishing on the net

Elfride Jelinek got the Nobel in literature in 2004. Now she is publishing her new stuff directly & freely (as in speech) on the net: Jelinek, 60, has been posting chapters of the new book, “Neid” (German for “Envy”), as she writes them. The first two chapters of the work she describes as a “mixture […]

Ali bumaye!

After seeing Will Smith as Ali in the eponymous movie, I got interested and read Hauser’s biography (Hauser, Thomas (2004 Reprint). Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. Robson Books. ISBN 1-86105-738-5.) What an exhilarating book and person. The books is not so much written as compiled: Hauser has interviewed tens of people, and the book […]

Globus: Quantum Closures

The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology has published my review of Gordon G. Globus’s book Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-Together Postphenomenology and Quantum Brain Dynamics. This is an interesting book, trying to bring together post-phenomenology and the interpretation of quantum theory, in this case in the form of quantum brain dynamics. The book is very informative, […]

Heidegger’s GA

The volumes of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe look good. The paper is of high quality, typesetting consistent & careful, a well-known publisher 쎢 Klostermann 쎢 on the job. I never really even thought about the quality of the editions, assuming that everything is tip-top. So it was something of a surprise to notice that Theodore Kisiel has […]

Self-organisation/Counter-economic strategies

Just noticed that this book initiated by the Danish artist group Superflex has come out. Here’s a description by the publisher: The book Self-organisation / counter-economic strategies was initiated by the artists쎢 group Superflex, but it is not about them. It is about the many approaches to the creation, dissemination and maintenance of alternative models […]