Archive for August, 2007

translating discourse

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

I’ve just discovered a new possible translation of the concept of ‘discourse’ into Finnish, namely ‘arvorypäs‘. This implies the concentration of different discursive elements and values into one. It also implies limits, just like the concept of discourse itself entails them.
Perhaps this way the whole study of discourses becomes more easy to grasp for a [...]

in helsinki, at the collegium

Monday, 6 August 2007

i spent my youth in helsinki. my helsinki was that of 1990s. now, after ten years of living mainly abroad, i’m back. and of course there are a lot of culture shocks and all that kind of stuff involved. more of them in the personal blog http://palemics.wordpress.com which is designed for those who know [...]