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On the mechanics of self-censorship
av thomas,15.12.10
I stumbled upon this piece by Frank Dai, and find the description of the mechanics of self-censorship to be equally entertaining and explicable: All the staff at the Chinese bureaucratical institutions tend to think one thing first before they did (…)
M.I.A – Born Free
av thomas,1.5.10
Det er grafisk og nokså blodig. Samtidig virker det nesten for absurd. Jeg har tenkt på denne siden jeg så den midt på dagen i går, og tenker fortsatt på den. Derfor syns jeg det er en god ytring. Kommer (…)
Shouting across the divide
av thomas,26.10.09
When he addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this spring, his State Department translated the text into 13 languages and hired bike-messengers to hand-deliver recordings to African radio stations. Sasha Issenberg on Barack Obama’s ability to make America’s international reputation (…)
Prof. Jim Cummins @ HiO
av thomas,30.10.08
Empty seats where hard to come by as Jim Cummins paid Oslo University College a visit today, for an inspiring session on Identity in multicultural classrooms. The canadian Prof. focused especially on the importance of approaching multiculturalism, multilingualism and diversity (…)