@paalhal
Associate prof, Library and information science, OsloMet + postdoc in sociology. Interested in social theory, digital media and culture, taste, sociology of literature and WW2. Also, chair of the Norwegian Sociological Association
You’ve all heard about Bodø/Glimt, but the city has also finally gotten its own art museum! Great exhibition with Adelsten Normannn there now - go see it! As always: Don’t trust Mona Pahle Bjerke!
Kanskje det å være god på å rydde opp etter nasjonale skandaler kan bli vårt nye oppblåste selvbilde!
Looking forward to welcoming Les Back at our national sociology conference this weekend! “Conflict and resistance” turned out even more topical than we imagined when we started organizing, unfortunately in many respect’s.
AI Slop Matters, but in what way?
Discussed this movie yesterday with Jan Grue, an astonishing movie in many regards! Do you have suggestions for further movie to show as a part of Sociolpgical screenings? Hit me!
Upcoming Tuesday at Vega cinema in Oslo I’ll discuss Peter Greenaways The Cook, The Theif, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) with Jan Grue after the screening. Come for a stunning movie, stay for the striking parallels to today’s political climate
Tiktok 🇺🇸 turns out to be Trump aligned state platform. In no time.
www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
Last week we started with deep reading seminars at OsloMet, also known as “shut up and read”. 50 students showed up to read Jacques Ferrandez’ graphic novel version of Camus’ The stranger in its full length. Next up in February: Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Case. Exited to follow the «experiment»!
A spokesperson for T&F said “Researchers should be free to communicate their work in the journal that best suits their research, and proposing to cap [open access] funding threatens that freedom to publish."
Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.
«We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.» 👏👏👏
3. Krasznahorkai covers, third: Norway. The best or am I completely blind?
2. Krasznahorkai covers, second: Sweden. What on earth are you doing?!
1. Krasznahorkai covers, first: Denmark, nice, pretty close to the English paperbacks
💥 Viktor Orbán faces a possible ousting in April 2026 — and whether he manages to cling to power or not, his regime and its global allure as a model for autocrats worldwide are crumbling. Read the sharpest analysis available.
Trist leder av Mari Skurdal i dag. Bernhard Ellefsen har forsøkt å tenke originalt og konstruktivt om norsk kulturpolitikk og blir møtt med det korte og slappe “tilsvaret”. Hvilke prioriteringer vil Skurdal gjøre for å gjenreise kulturpolitikken?
It’s going to be an interest in election last year
📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
“Understand a people’s culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity.”
Clifford Geertz
I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?
Krasznahorkai!!!! Great award, most deserved!!
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Oh no, may I no longer use the em dash? Afraid I’ve been sending wrong signals for a while now: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
i love ta-nehisi coates so much
Today translators, tomorrow... We need to prioritize human-to-human connection.
“The more we remove human elements from human interaction, the more it could distort relationships between people. Now more than ever, we need humans connecting with humans.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The dangers of AI slop: “AI content can push our emotional buttons easily, re-affirming or amplifying existing beliefs with generated imagery. Practically every social media study since 2012 has found that the secret to virality is in making you emotional . . . .”
Spurt i 2009 om Ungarere lever under bedre, verre eller samme forhold som under kommunismen, oppga 72 prosent verre forhold. Selv russerne har et mer positivt syn på regimeendringene etter 1990 enn ungarerne. Les min bokanmeldelse av Tibor Valuchs nye bok (2025) tidsskriftet-nof.no/index.php/no...
this is one of the things where they’re clearly doing it to trigger the libs, but the triggering thing is “the government should be allowed to kill people for no reason”, and if you’re not gonna ‘take the bait’ on that, why even have a politics?
Currently enjoying being a part of the group «man with an unpublished book manuscript about World War II», but a bit hesitant to having the group «man with rejected book manuscript about World War II» as a possible future
