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I think if you dare to call yourself a writer you must dare to put ALL of yourself into your writing.
Exhibitionism and mental masturbation? Nonsense. Blogging is about hiding. It’s about partial truths and a voice that is binding as well as freeing. When my partner tells me he’s unsure about our relationship I write about protesters rallying for peace. When I […]
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When one side has a thousand times more casulties than the other, it’s not a war, writes Sven Egil Omdal. He repeats what Europeans have been hearing since the war began: in the US, the war is reported uncritically. Iraqi civilian victims […]
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Today’s meeting about copyright and copying at Bergen Kunsthall (“deledagen”) has been critisised for only having male presenters (in the BB mailing list today, archives are subscribers only). The organisers answer that they asked two women who couldn’t come, and they pull […]
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Ruth and Finn have invited me to Trondheim on Monday, and so I’ve been surfing around to put my links together. I’ve discovered if I have more than enough links talking is easy. Writing talks as link-dense summaries is much faster than […]
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In the USA, one in ten black men between the ages of 25 and 35 are in prison, according to the Human Rights Watch. (via Eirik)