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- Munthe, Christian, 1962
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Mellan genialitet och galenskap: Recension av Benjamin Labatuts roman "MANIAC"
- 2023
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Ingår i: Tidskriften Alba. - 1403-5448.
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- John von Neumann var ett för de allra flesta okänt ungerskt underbarn av judisk härkomst som sedermera flydde undan nazisterna till USA, där han dog 1957. Han var ett matematiskt universalgeni som gav viktiga, för att inte säga avgörande, bidrag till fysikens, biologins, data- och samhällsvetenskapens och meteorologins (och därmed klimatvetenskapens) utveckling under 1900-talet. Vid sidan av den mer allmänt kände Alan Turing föranstaltade han det som vi idag lär känna som A.I. och teoretiserade tidigt om hur man kunde tänka på maskiner som livsformer analogt med biologiska – en idé som idag ingår både i evolutionsbiologiska verktygslådor liksom i visioner och mardrömsscenarier om en teknologisk singularitet bortom vilken generella A.I. dominerar och, i värsta fall, tränger ut människoarten. Det är denne märkliga och skrämmande person Benjamín Labatuts välskrivna roman sätter i centrum för en berättelse om gränslandet mellan genialitet och galenskap, vetenskap och teknik från förra sekelskiftet till nu, logikseminariernas tankelekar och konkret global politisk utveckling på liv och död. Romanen är pärlande klart översatt av Anna Petronella Foultier. Man behöver nog ha ett visst intresse för vetenskap, teknik och/eller global politik för att uppskatta den fullt ut, men mycket sådant förklaras under hand på ett skenbart enkelt vis, så jättestora kunskaper behövs inte.
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- Skoglund, Annika, 1977-
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Becoming Indigenous—Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene, by David Chandler and Julian Reid
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Learning & Education. - : Academy of Management. - 1537-260X .- 1944-9585. ; 19:3, s. 425-428
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With criticism of human superiority related to the Anthropocene, resilience is no longer recognized as enough. The human should be made more openly aware of its ecologically interconnected and dethroned state to give up on its last sense of ‘human’ autonomy, as critically exposed in the political science book under review: Becoming Indigenous, Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (Chandler and Reid 2019). Following the political umbrage generated by calls for resilience (Evans and Reid 2014), Chandler and Reid show how the human still is configured to cope with complexity, but eerily capacitated with ‘indigeneity’ through the Anthropocene worldview. After resilience proponents erased beliefs in human capacities to secure itself and endorsed ‘an understanding of life as a permanent process of continual adaptation to threats and dangers’ (Chandler and Reid 2016: 53), this affirmation of vulnerability has been deepened by a revised sociability and ecological sensitivity based on the realization ‘that we are no longer separate, no longer in control, no longer not interested in other actors and agencies with which we cohabit’ (Chandler and Reid 2019:13).
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- Backéus, Ingvar
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Markförstöring I Afrika
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Ingår i: Upsala Nya Tidning.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Changing Trends in Rembering Amundsen and Scott. A Review Essay : Review of: Ross D.E. MacPhee, Race to the End. Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2010) 245 pages plus panorama foldout plates and map. ISBN 978-1-4027-7029-6; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice. Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011) 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-15408-5; Cornelia Lüdecke, Roald Amundsen. Ein biografisches Porträt (Freiburg etc., Verlag Herder GmbH, 2011)
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Ingår i: Journal of Northern Studies (Umeå). - 1654-5915. ; 6:2, s. 113-146
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- The past couple of years have seen publication of several books dealing with the epic drama of men struggling with Nature and each other to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Roald Amundsen and four companions, citizens of a newly independent Norway were the first to make it, reaping the prize before the rival party of Robert Falcon Scott did. Amundsen had officially set out to repeat Fridtjof Nansen’s experiment of locking his ship the Fram in the Arctic sea ice to follow its drift and undertake original oceanographic research, but he had the audacity to change his mind and head for the South Pole, thereby challenging Scott whose expedition had the backing of the British Empire. The outcome is well known. Amundsen’s superior planning, know how regarding survival under polar conditions and efficient use of Inuit style clothing and dogsleds won the day over Scott’s naval tradition of man hauling, poorer clothing and insufficient preparations. Amundsen made it back to civilization to announce his own achievement; Scott and his four companions froze to death near a depot they were unable to reach on their return to base-camp. Both men had their names inscribed in the history of their respective nations, symbolizing respectively the ingenuity and prowess of a newly independent nation on the rise and the onset perhaps of the decline of the world’s biggest imperial power at that time. Amundsen and Scott have been remembered many times and in different ways during the past century. On each occasion new facts and perspectives have come to light, and equally interesting - in retrospect - is how the constructions of memory are historically contingent, they change with the times. The paper reviews three recent books prompted by the centennial commemoration of Amundsen's and Scott's race to the South Pole.
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