Manlig vänskap – uppdaterad

Kristina Alexandersson fotograferar figurer från Star Wars. Följ henne på Flickr! Idag finns det 894 bilder och de blir allt mer intressanta.

Mitt förhållande till stormtroopers är ganska vagt – men det finns något ömsint i den här bilden som berör mig. De väntar på något viktigt. Jag vet bara inte vad?

Uppdaterad:

Jag och Morrica diskuterar min tolkning. I grunden säger en tolkning mer om den tolkande än om bilden. Antagligen är jag fångad i associationerna till det här frusna ögonblicket. Min storebror och jag står på Färmsholmen och tittar på bärplansbåten Sirena som rusar fram över fjärden mot Finland. Jag förstod att framtiden tillhörde de snabba och blanka – efter en halv minut kom lite skvalpiga svallvågorna in mot vår lilla strand. De liknade inte de stora båtarnas dyningar.

 

Saknar Sendak

“I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput,” he told one interviewer. “I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.”

För mig är Till vildingarnas land den bästa barnbiken – alla kategorier!

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Manifest!

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Här finns uppslag att tänka vidare! Långt vidare. Kanske vidare cirklar?

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En annan hjälte

Jag brukar vara misstänksam mot listor med goda råd. De här duger kanske som utgångspunkt för att diskutera?

In the December 16, 1951 issue of the New York Times, British philosopher/logician/ mathematician/historian (a quadruple thought leader threat) Bertrand Russell shared his ten commandments of teaching.

  1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
  2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
  3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
  4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
  5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
  6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
  7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
  8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
  9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
  10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

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Vill jag verkligen att våra studenter ska läsa detta?

How much of our lives as academics is spent as room meat: turning up to things because it would look bad if the numbers were small, or just because we are meant to be there? And, even more chastening, how many total room-meat hours have we inflicted on colleagues and students? It would be thousands over a normal career, and if you are really successful, hundreds of thousands.

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