Recent reading
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luzulaStockholm, städerna och resten by Arne Müller (Stockholm, the towns and the rest, only in Swedish)
Continuing the theme of the city vs countryside divide. This one is much better than the last one I read on the topic! It's solid journalism that digs down on the topic, looking at relevant government policy since the fifties, along with various statistics. Also an in-depth look at Sorsele, a countryside community in Norrland. It reaches the conclusion that urbanization and de-population of the countryside is an expected effect of capitalism combined with faster transports, which sounds reasonable to me. Should probably read David Harvey if I want to dig into this more.
Aniara by Harry Martinsson (Swedish, available in English translation but not in print)
Long narrative SF poetry from the fifties. This is a Swedish classic that I hadn't read before--it's about a spaceship that's supposed to go from a ravaged Earth to Mars, but it's thrown off course and just keeps going out into space. As you might expect from that description, it's fairly gloomy, but I do like the poetry. Didn't expect it to be so male-gazey though.
Continuing the theme of the city vs countryside divide. This one is much better than the last one I read on the topic! It's solid journalism that digs down on the topic, looking at relevant government policy since the fifties, along with various statistics. Also an in-depth look at Sorsele, a countryside community in Norrland. It reaches the conclusion that urbanization and de-population of the countryside is an expected effect of capitalism combined with faster transports, which sounds reasonable to me. Should probably read David Harvey if I want to dig into this more.
Aniara by Harry Martinsson (Swedish, available in English translation but not in print)
Long narrative SF poetry from the fifties. This is a Swedish classic that I hadn't read before--it's about a spaceship that's supposed to go from a ravaged Earth to Mars, but it's thrown off course and just keeps going out into space. As you might expect from that description, it's fairly gloomy, but I do like the poetry. Didn't expect it to be so male-gazey though.
