This video - despite the problems that it might have for privacy - is a very good one for seeing what was going on in the riots on the one-year anniversary of the riots of 2006 on the eve of the national day commemorating the revolution of 1956.
See elsewhere in this blog for my analysis [...]
There might be some traffic here on my relatively rarely updated professional webpage.
Besides working in the Academy of Finland funded project, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and teaching ideology and discourse analysis in two Universities in Finland, I’ve also ended up on the practical field of ideology and discourse analysis as the Editor [...]
The Finnish general elections were a consensus-seeking beauty contest, where the election results, nevertheless, forecast a revival of a Finnish right-wing. In the Finnish multi-party system three big parties dominate. In 2003-2007 the government was made up of the Centre Party (Keskusta, former Agrarians) and the Social Democrats (SDP). They were challenged by the National [...]
After the Hungarians lost their chains
‘…the state will wither away’
The Hungarian Socialists are true to their Marxist roots in one respect: contributing to the running down of the state. In the postcommunist condition, the liberation from the central power, decentralisation has been a popular goal. In government, the Hungarian Socialist party of Ferenc Gyurcsány, with [...]
the icon of modernism stands again like a temple on the field, as the great modernist gropius had planned it in the 1920s.
or does it?
the trees planted after the WWII around the BAUHAUS building in dessau were cut on 14-15 february 2007. the plan is to create a new park around the building, following the [...]
below are the presentations for the mid-term projects here at the bauhaus kolleg.
Luxembourg personal project mid-term part one
Sibiu personal project mid-term part two
discourse theory and comparison
Personal contribution on sibiu memorials to group project
Here’s an analysis of Blair’s last speech as the party leader in the Labour Party conference 26 September, 2006. I wrote it for other purposes, but it might be interesting more widely than for my own note books in even in this format so I post it here.
Blair: Responding to the situation 1. As always [...]
