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Grass “poem”?
To me the writings of Günter Grass look like nothing special. It’s a rehash of things that were known already and opinions that most people in the world would agree with anyway. I don’t see the controversy. Why does this…
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Goldsmiths — radical?
It’s funny to think about that our student "riots" of fall 2010 have been made part of the Goldsmiths marketing strategy (selling buttons, etc.) while at the time they tried everything possible to stop us from organizing or occupying anything…
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OLPC not all that great anyways?
I have wondered about this a bit — in a world where a tiny part of the world can potentially produce the electronics for everybody and large parts of the world will never be industrialized (or even deindustrialize) — could…
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blog restarted
Finally my blog should show my posts again. If everything works out right, my blog http://johanneswilm.org should be connected with my FB account through the Friendica powered site http://polyglot.me . Hopefully this is the beginning of an exit strategy from…
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Honduras, 2 years after the coup
Ever since I left Honduras to tour Europe with my footage of the protesters in August 2009, I have felt quite a weird connection to that country — even though I had only been there a few days, I felt…
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Nicaragua, back from the dead?
As Daniel Ortega won the popular vote with more then 50% of the vite for the first time since the early 1980s, I thought I should mention my recently released book Nicaragua, Back from the Dead? An anthropological View of…
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Terror in Norway — more democracy or more surveillance?
The immediate reaction to the terror attack in Oslo on the part of the Norwegian government has been to say that they will react with “more democracy.” This apparently is to mean that a stronger distinction should be made between…
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Ugly, but Honest
This sign says what I aim to do with these photos: See the ugly, but honest reality. When selecting motives for photos, it is so common everywhere in the world to focus upon the things that we see as relevant…
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As many will have noticed, hardly any updated ever get posted here. I will turn my thesis in on September 1st, and will be examined some months after that. I will consider whether to restart my blog after I am…
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Interview about future of socialism in Cuba
The following is an interview I did with Professor José Bell Lara in September this year. I spent September in Cuba, trying to understand the economic system, some of the IT systems behind it all and how Cuban (students) see…