The Hungarian public broadcaster is showing this message now, after its news service was temporarily shut down: "Public broadcasters must not lie. We apologize for having done so for years. The public broadcaster will undergo changes to make its news service independent and credible."

Sommerdebatten 2026: kultursosiologien er truet av å ha blitt konvensjonell. Det er ikke Iver Neumann den beste til å kontre, argumenterer jeg(!)

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

The beautiful game

I actually stayed up to watch the Norway-Brazil match, my first of the World Cup. While everyone is going on about Braut Haaland (yes, his goals were great), the show was really all Nyland who made absolutely amazing saves. It was Nyland’s game. 🇳🇴

I avisen i dag, om forfatterne som ble etterforska i Landssvikoppgjøret og hva det kan lære oss: klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Glad for Hungarians today🇭🇺, who get to experience political change which has been a long time coming! The Hungarians show that they no longer will be adressed by, or conceived as part of a gang of right wing actors, Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others.

⚡️New publication⚡️ «The House Before the Dark Set in. Norwegian Writers’ Constructions of Reality in Five Novels, 1930–1940» In this I analyze five novels to understand different relationships between politics and literature in the time of 1930s culture wars www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Føredrag i saftbygda, på HVL, i dag!

🚫🇷🇺 Hungarian protesters chanted “Russians go home!” (Ruszkik haza) at Viktor Orbán during a campaign rally, hours after we revealed his foreign minister conspired behind allies' back and even shared EU documents with Sergey Lavrov. The chant echoes the main slogan of the 1956 uprising.

“I’m always at your service”: leaked calls between the foreign ministers of Russia and Hungary. Recordings of conversations between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó suggest the Hungarian minister was willing to advance Moscow’s interests within the EU.

Important read for anyone curious about the upcoming Hungarian election!

Monika Krause recently gave the NSA annual lecture in social theory, and an accompanying lecture titled "Theorizing from cases," integrating insights from "Model cases" book with "Theorizing from neglected cases." The latter was recorded and can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12G...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

In recognition of Jürgen Habermas’s great significance for sociology, we have, on the occasion of his passing, made this insightful interview with Habermas by Torben Hviid Nielsen, freely available for you to (re)visit his profound ideas on ‘Morality, Society and Ethics'. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

[???] "tends to use sociological sledgehammers to crack rather thin-shelled cultural nuts." Peter Burke wrote in a review about which sociologist?

Siden jeg har en hang til å like emoene, la meg si det slik: hvem skal kritisere kritikerne? Først gir de årets kritiker til Bulie og så til JEV. Hvor selvgratulerende, trygg og lite raus er det mulig å bli? Hadde jeg vært kritiker i dagspressa hadde jeg tatt det som en fornærmelse

You’ve all heard about Bodø/Glimt, but the city has also finally gotten its own art museum! Great exhibition with Adelsten Normannn there now - go see it! As always: Don’t trust Mona Pahle Bjerke!

Kanskje det å være god på å rydde opp etter nasjonale skandaler kan bli vårt nye oppblåste selvbilde!

Looking forward to welcoming Les Back at our national sociology conference this weekend! “Conflict and resistance” turned out even more topical than we imagined when we started organizing, unfortunately in many respect’s.

AI Slop Matters, but in what way?

Discussed this movie yesterday with Jan Grue, an astonishing movie in many regards! Do you have suggestions for further movie to show as a part of Sociolpgical screenings? Hit me!

Upcoming Tuesday at Vega cinema in Oslo I’ll discuss Peter Greenaways The Cook, The Theif, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) with Jan Grue after the screening. Come for a stunning movie, stay for the striking parallels to today’s political climate

Tiktok 🇺🇸 turns out to be Trump aligned state platform. In no time. www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...

Last week we started with deep reading seminars at OsloMet, also known as “shut up and read”. 50 students showed up to read Jacques Ferrandez’ graphic novel version of Camus’ The stranger in its full length. Next up in February: Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Case. Exited to follow the «experiment»!

A spokesperson for T&F said “Researchers should be free to communicate their work in the journal that best suits their research, and proposing to cap [open access] funding threatens that freedom to publish." Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.

«We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.» 👏👏👏

1. Krasznahorkai covers, first: Denmark, nice, pretty close to the English paperbacks

💥 Viktor Orbán faces a possible ousting in April 2026 — and whether he manages to cling to power or not, his regime and its global allure as a model for autocrats worldwide are crumbling. Read the sharpest analysis available.

Trist leder av Mari Skurdal i dag. Bernhard Ellefsen har forsøkt å tenke originalt og konstruktivt om norsk kulturpolitikk og blir møtt med det korte og slappe “tilsvaret”. Hvilke prioriteringer vil Skurdal gjøre for å gjenreise kulturpolitikken?

It’s going to be an interest in election last year

📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.

“Understand a people’s culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity.” Clifford Geertz

I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?

Krasznahorkai!!!! Great award, most deserved!! telex.hu/kult/2025/10...

Oh no, may I no longer use the em dash? Afraid I’ve been sending wrong signals for a while now: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

Today translators, tomorrow... We need to prioritize human-to-human connection. “The more we remove human elements from human interaction, the more it could distort relationships between people. Now more than ever, we need humans connecting with humans.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The dangers of AI slop: “AI content can push our emotional buttons easily, re-affirming or amplifying existing beliefs with generated imagery. Practically every social media study since 2012 has found that the secret to virality is in making you emotional . . . .”

Spurt i 2009 om Ungarere lever under bedre, verre eller samme forhold som under kommunismen, oppga 72 prosent verre forhold. Selv russerne har et mer positivt syn på regimeendringene etter 1990 enn ungarerne. Les min bokanmeldelse av Tibor Valuchs nye bok (2025) tidsskriftet-nof.no/index.php/no...

this is one of the things where they’re clearly doing it to trigger the libs, but the triggering thing is “the government should be allowed to kill people for no reason”, and if you’re not gonna ‘take the bait’ on that, why even have a politics?

Currently enjoying being a part of the group «man with an unpublished book manuscript about World War II», but a bit hesitant to having the group «man with rejected book manuscript about World War II» as a possible future

17 August 1942 | Irène Némirovsky, a French-language novelist born in the family of Russian Jews, died of typhus after a month of imprisonment in the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp. She was 39. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A...

Håvard Brede Aven skreiv ein veldig god tekst om Førdesfjorden og andre miljørettssaker i Syn og Segn i fjor. Kan vera verd ei nylesing no som naturorganisasjonane vann mot staten i lagmannsretten. www.synogsegn.no/2025/tilbake...

Furthest I’ve been: North: Tromsø 🇳🇴 East: St. Petersburg 🇷🇺 West: California 🇺🇸 South: Marrakesh 🇲🇦

Kjærås, NFF og leder for UEFA playmakers i Norge sier på radio at Innsiden ut 2 (!) er mer utbredt som kulturell fellesnevner enn Ambjørnsen og Moe, underforstått Askeladden. Jeg har alltid synes det har vært litt komisk med sånn kulturimperialisme-kritikk, men den har jaggu framleis sin plass!

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.