Author Archives: Tullia Jack

Perfection is so…

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Tullia Jack

… much a part of the globalising, accelerating, glossy-media-saturated world we live in. We are bombarded with images of impossibly flawless faces, bodies, homes, food… Celebrity aside, my Facebook stream is incessantly flooded by perfectly smiling friends, going on perfectly exotic holidays, … Continue reading →

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Beyoncé dances nearly naked on beach

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Tullia Jack

I’ve been wanting to post this since December. I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Most of me wants to dismiss it as the music industry sexualising yet another female artist. But it’s one of my top … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour’s new project to facilitate Grass-roots Universalism with the help of 5 handsome white men.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Tullia Jack

Yesterday Bruno Latour, fêted french sociologist, doyen of Actor Network Theory and charming man about Paris, presented his new research project, An Inquiry Into The Modes Of Existence (AIME), to a distinguished gathering of academics at Copenhagen Business School. The collaborative research … Continue reading →

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Rushing: a waste of time?

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Tullia Jack

One of my favourite parts of immersing in Swedish culture is the sauna. Sweating in hot cedar and then dipping in the cold North Sea with the old dames of malmö has become somewhat of a mid-week ritual. One I’m … Continue reading →

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Christmas Turkey

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Tullia Jack
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Money

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Tullia Jack

For the first time in my life I have a stable job. Which means for the first time in my life I have a stable income. Which also means, that for the very first time in my life, I have … Continue reading →

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Truth and reality

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Tullia Jack

I do solemnly declare that I shall give the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I’ve never really thought much about what the truth is. But Liv told me there is no such thing. At face value … Continue reading →

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The sharing compulsion

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Tullia Jack

Why blog? Why share random thoughts with random people on the internet? Is it ego? Some self important identity project? I hope not. The reflexive me wants this to be a selfless sharing compulsion aimed at contributing to our human super … Continue reading →

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Just when I thought I was starting to get my head around some theories…

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Tullia Jack

…Bourdieu makes sure it doesn’t go to my head… ‘the philosophical sense of distinction is another form of the visceral disgust at vulgarity which defines pure taste as an internalized social relationship, a social relationship made flesh; and a philosophically distinguished … Continue reading →

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Is objectivity tarnished by participant sensitivity?

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Tullia Jack

Seeing the world how it ‘really is’ is one of the fundamental aims of any research. Physicists study how matter really exists, biologists how organisms really exist, and sociologists how societies really exist. Studying people and societies is uniquely challenging … Continue reading →

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