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November 3, 2013

Väggen försvinner / The Wall Disappears

You are not stupid - It’s the state and the schools that make you ignorant.

http://thewalldisappears.blogspot.se/

Short: walldis.co.nr

Description of THE WALL and presentation of our course

In English
http://thewalldisappears.blogspot.se/p/englishpres.html

På svenska
http://thewalldisappears.blogspot.se/p/svenskpres.html

June 7, 2012

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Update: Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203, Interviewed by Sam Weller, .The Paris Review, Spring 2010, No. 192

"You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices."

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury

Obituary, Peerless American short-story writer and the author of Fahrenheit 451,
David Pringle, 6 June 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury

Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer by David L. Wolper
http://archive.org/details/RayBradburyStoryOfAWriterByDavidL.Wolper

David L. Wolper (1928 –2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Wolper

Found the movie at: Ray Bradbury Talks Inspiration and Advice in a Fascinating 1963 Film
By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, June 6 2012
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/06/ray-bradbury-talks-inspiration-and-advice-in-a-fascinating-1963-film/258165/

Jesus was a Buddhist Monk - ? - BBC Documentary

Jesus in India (book) 1899?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_India_(book)

The History of the Devil

April 25, 2012

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron_Acemoğlu

Why Nations Fail - Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
http://whynationsfail.com/

Why Nations Fail By Thomas L. Friedman Published: March 31, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/friedman-why-nations-fail.html

20 May 2012 Update

The New York Review of Books

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

By Jared Diamond, June 7, 2012

Diamond´s final remark:

Why Nations Fail should be required reading for politicians and anyone concerned with economic development. The authors’ discussions of what can and can’t be done today to improve conditions in poor countries are thought-provoking and will stimulate debate. Donors and international agencies try to “engineer prosperity” either by foreign aid or by urging poor countries to adopt good economic policies. But there is widespread disappointment with the results of these well-intentioned efforts. Acemoglu and Robinson pithily diagnose the cause of these disappointing outcomes in their final chapter: “Attempting to engineer prosperity without confronting the root cause of the problems—extractive institutions and the politics that keeps them in place—is unlikely to bear fruit.”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/what-makes-countries-rich-or-poor/?pagination=false

Links regarding the lecture

Adam Smith (1723–1790)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

- The Wealth of Nations (1776)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

April 7, 2011

Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier

Jørgen Leth (born 1937)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jørgen_Leth
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jørgen_Leth

Blog: http://jorgenleth.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfect_Human
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_perfekte_menneske

Lars von Trier (born 1956)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

The Five Obstructions / De fem benspænd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Obstructions

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March 31, 2011

Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre

Human, All Too Human a three-part 1999 documentary television series produced by the BBC that follows the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre.

1. Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Thinking the Unthinkable: Martin Heidegger
3. The Road to Freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre

About this documentary: Human, All Too Human
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human,_All_Too_Human_(TV_series)

1. Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

About the book, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (1878)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human,_All_Too_Human