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A Modern-Day Diary : Notes for Future Humans

2021

Abstract Time and being can be seen as a space. A modern-day diary is a way of exploring that space or state of being. Outlining and shaping it requires word, image and imagination. The question is framed cultural-philosophically, and the mode of writing is poetic essayism. Otherwise, the creative untangling and differentiation of the poetics of lived space is not possible. After all, the goal is to combine science and art and weave them into the same reflective fabric. The essential aspects include thoughts about the fullness and filling of something, about its fulfilment. Then the present moment is not seen as marking a boundary in just one direction: it is not just an endpoint of the pas…

Philosophical musings on being, culture and experientiality

2019

Being is like a large looking glass, reflecting nested levels of existence. The idea of mirroring also implies a series of recurring reflections. A culture contains an image of itself that repeats its totality in the form of a diminished image. Internationality and nationality need each other. A one-sided emphasis on one's own history directs the gaze excessively inwards and simultaneously the future is closed off. Nevertheless, internationality needs a core of nationality. Understanding the importance of respecting the past and valuing a diversified future produces a harmonious image in the mirror of time. Being continues uninterruptedly from the bygone into new ages. Even though the harsh…

The Finland of Poetry Revisited Four Snapshots

2015

A poem is a condensation of signs and a method characteristic of every human being for investigating a shared reality. Accordingly, a human being also lives and exists poetically in this common world. This being so, the primacy of the mother tongue refers to the lived language, which mediates the possibility for us of carving out our own unique imprint on existence. Similarly, the native land signifies a milieu where a human being takes on a reality amidst other objects, surrounded by them and as one of them. Poetry creates harmony between past and present. peerReviewed

Maggie Nelson: Sinelmiä

2019

Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Maggie Nelson: Sinelmiä, suom. Kaijamari Sivill, S&S 2019 nonPeerReviewed

The Quintessential Kalastajatorppa : A Cinematic Journey into a Time and a Space

2019

Ihana, vaarallinen, tylsä televisio

2020

Arvio teoksista Noora Vaarala & Anton Vanha-Majamaa (toim.): Television lapset. Siltala, 2019. 223 s. , Kaisu Tervonen (toim.): 13 katseluasentoa: Miltä televisio tuntuu? Kosmos, 2020. 191 s. ja Jani Saxell (toim.): Parasta katseluaikaa. WSOY, 2020. 393 s. Television kimppuun on vuoden sisällä käyty peräti kolmen valikoiman voimin yli 800 sivulla. Miten käy sohvaperunoilta essee? nonPeerReviewed

Valiant, vital and virtuous : A time-snap review

2020

A time-snap review – moments captured pictorially – means the creation of multi-layered observation. The enquiring gaze then extends beyond the present moment: to its existential roots. However, it is not a question of presenting an historical list, a collection of topics of various types and periods. Of course, understanding the present also requires knowledge of the people and events of the past. In this way it also becomes possible to study the recurring nature of existence. Can war-related travel also count as cultural travel? Is it possible to talk about war tourism? Presumably, in many countries the answer to this will be positive. It relates to the history of ideas and also to nation…