Keith Jacobshagen is the ultimate painter of the American Mid-West - a place where the sky is greater than landscape, but where the endlessness of that landscape becomes your sole obsession. The empty vastness. The otherwordly openness of the desert landscapes: the openness and the intriguing formations of rock and sand. Read more

A few years back, I suggested that AIDS might affect moralistic discourses about gender and sexuality, simply because it makes some types of behavior more dangerous than they used to be: promiscuity, while frowned upon in many cultural systems, can now also be lethal. I suggested this, but back then I did not have the data to back the argument empirically. Read more

This summer, the mobile network of the largest Norwegian telecom company, Telenor, had some downtime. A matter of mere hours of downtime, but still an event that grew significant in the national news coverage which eventually drew on top politicians. A few weeks later, the website of the Norwegian Universities and Colleges Admission Service crashed as a time-sensitive application form was released. This happened last year and the year before as well, and also this event was covered in national media. Both crashes were direct results of physical structures being run over capacity. Read more

A dark terror has descended upon Oslo and something must be done before it absorbs us completely. Read more

Muammar Gaddafi was killed near his hometown Sirtre yesterday morning. After his convoy was attacked by a French airstrike, an US Airforce drone and ground forces, he took refuge with several of his bodyguards in a drain underneath a road west of the city. The exact circumstances of his capture and killing are unclear, but evidence suggests that he was beaten and then shot soon after his capture. Read more