Kevin Coyne
(Previously in Swedish on this webbsite 2015) It’s been 10 years since Kevin Coyne’s voice fell silent. He died on December 2 2004. For those of you who don’t know him, he was above all a English musician and composer with a fantastic singing voice, but also a good writer, painter and filmmaker. In everything […]
Graffiti study 1.1 (part 2:2)
Opinions on how graffiti should be valued and assessed differ diametrically depending on who you are talking to. The practitioners themselves often consider it to be artistic activities, while others see painting as vandalism and a serious social problem. From a social constructivist perspective, a cultural relativist approach follows, that is, that the artistic value […]
Graffiti study 1.1 (part 1:2)
This is the first part om the introduction of my theses about graffiti from 2006 (translated into English). 1.1 Purpose and perspective (part 1:2) The phenomenon of graffiti is a social problem that every year causes great costs. The main purpose of this study is to try to identify the basic mechanisms underlying young people’s […]
Graffiti study – Summary (initial)
Translated part 1 Summary In the latter half of the 1960s, a new youth phenomenon emerged on the East Coast of North America. Young people began to illegally paint images in the public environment, images whose motive were ornamented, and often difficult to interpret, letter that constituted pseudonyms for the authors. The tools used were […]
My new project
During the late 1990s I was a PhD student at Stockholm University and studied youth crime. I interrupted my studies in the early 2000s but resumed them a few years later and completed a part of the PhD with an essay (2006), one of the parts of my thesis project, dealing with graffiti. This and […]
Trafic jam
(Previously in Swedish on this webbsite 2015) I sat this morning in my car in a slow-moving cue on my way to work and thought about how extremely many people who, one way or another, is traveling on our road networks every day. We go to and from work, the store, leisure activities and so […]
Barney Stinson
(Previously in Swedish on this webbsite 2015) No one who has seen the TV sitcom “How I Met Your Mothet” can be unaffected by the character Barney Stinson and his view of women. His goal in life is to have sex with as many women as possible and he uses all sorts of unsympathetic and […]
Response to a question about my blog
This is some answer to questions a got from Yolanda. I try to stick to some rules in my writing on this blog that I now here are trying to formulate in text: I always try to formulate my own ideas. However, I am aware that the foundations of my thoughts and ideas rarely are […]