Category: Culture

  • Mercy – a forgotten concept?

    From “Dozhd“: Film and theater actor Vadim Dzyuba appeared in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow with a speech in support of political prisoners, including director Yevgeny Berkovich, playwright Svetlana Petrychuk and city council member Alexei Gorinova. The actor posted a video of his performance in the church hall on his Telegram channel…

  • Money on the Devil (Diablo *)

    (Below: a slightly longer version of a review that I first wrote on the website of a swedish book company) “Play Nice” – an interesting review of the fates and adventures of a game company. This book is about the particular culture in which game creation arose, and especially when the company “Blizzard” was formed…

  • Straightforward?

    Friday’s White House meeting with Trump, JD Vance, Zelensky and others took place the day after a significant date – February 27. It was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. Nemtsov was in his time the most straightforward and outspoken critic of Putin and the Putin regime. But he fell…

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…

  • The kindness of the internet..

    The Internet started out as a fairly friendly and generous medium. As time has gone by, it has become increasingly hard and demanding. Not the Internet as such, of course, but its users, operators and exploiters. Of which I am one. It feels necessary to take a break every now and then. To try yourself,…