Wandering, wondering
We are bipedal animals coming from a fight-or-flight evolutionary process. A relevant question these days is how technology and our contemporary, saturated lifestyle will affect the evolution to come. Technology is already so integrated on basically all levels that kids have no chance to escape even if they wanted to. And how could they want something they never knew was there in the first place? We no longer walk for hours on end, we use vehicles. When the need arises to train our bodies, we don’t exercise using the body itself but rather allow machines and technology that privilege too. In so many ways, we have already gone from being anthropocentric to technocentric. Homo Roboticus. I have moaned about these things and developments in many different places (for the most recent offering, please have a look at my book Reasonances from Scarlet Imprint). However, as with many strong sentiments bordering on idealistic naïveté, perhaps it’s best to...
Ernst Jünger’s “Godenholm” available in English
Wonderful news! Edda celebrates spring by publishing a long awaited book: Ernst Jünger’s Besuch auf Godenholm in English. Ernst Jünger’s dream-like story Visit to Godenholm takes the reader on a strange journey to an island off an unknown Scandinavian coastline. Visitors to Godenholm are received by the powerful philosopher-magician Schwarzenberg and suddenly all concepts of time and space are upheaved. The visitors now have to face their own expectations and inner processes in this remarkable and potent psychic freezone. Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) is one of German literature’s strangest birds. After his debut with the stark and brutal The Storm of Steel (1920), an account of his own experiences of the first World War, Jünger devoted his long and productive life to writing novels, essays, philosophical ponderings and much more. Jünger was also a keen entomologist and used facets of his experiences in nature to create a literary language wholly his own. Permeated by...
A Freddie Wadling documentary this way comes…
Way back in 1987-1988, I made a Super-8 film with/about my friend Freddie Wadling, a legendary Swedish singer/musician. It featured an interview section and live material with his band Blue For Two. The film was called Love Begins To Write A Book, and although very primitive, I was pleased with it! Super-8 with direct sound: cine-punk! In 2014 I decided it could be an interesting experiment to remake it. And so we did it all over again. I asked Freddie the same questions and recorded Blue For Two performing the very same songs. The result is now a time-traveling combo-film with both the new and old sections and it’s called Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt (“Nothing Is True, Everything Is Possible”). The film will be premiered at the Tempo documentary festival in Stockholm in early March. Here’s a link to Tempo. If you are interested in arranging a screening, feel free to get in touch. It’s in Swedish but will soon be available in a version...