Hjalmar Falk

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History of ideas and science, University of Gothenburg. Sometime critic, constant hylic.

Håller upp ett exemplar av Nils Runebys doktorsavhandling i idéhistoria från 1962, Monarchia Mixta: Maktfördelningsdebatt i Sverige under den tidigare stormaktstiden
Holding a copy of Volker Reinhardt’s Machiavelli, oder Die Kunst der Macht. Eine Biographie.
William S. Burroughs lighting a cigarette in front of a painted sign saying ‘DANGER’
Håller upp den italienska utgåvan av Hans Kelsens bok Lo stato in Dante. Una teologia politica per l’impero.
Håller upp boken Maktens hemligheter. En essä om Machiavelli av Anders Ehnmark.
Håller upp boken Slottet. En essä om Alexis de Tocqueville av Anders Ehnmark.
Cover of the album of the soundtrack to David Lynch’s Lost Highway.
When I died on the Franklin River at the age of twenty-one it was as I had always known it would be. Everything ever since has been an astonishing dream. Increasingly, I expect that in my final moments I will wake in the river dark, discovering I never left and am now to drown, and that the only novel I ever wrote was my life. Perhaps this is a ghost story and the ghost me.
Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 held up by a pale hand, in the background an opened can of Pilsner Urquell.
Holding up the book The Burning of the World. A Memoir of 1914, by Béla Zombory-Moldován.
A full set of Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, newly delivered and still wrapped in plastic.
Framsidan av Niklas Olaisons doktorsavhandling i idéhistoria: ”Låt oss skapa människan! Stratifieringsprocesser i Thomas Hobbes’ filosofi”
Book cover of Marco Filoni’s L’azione politica del filosofo, a biography of Alexandre Kojève.
The text I am in hell help me written in blood.
Image of Sam Neill in a movie theater, from the end scene of In the Mouth of Madness.
Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt
Bilden återger en sektion ur Wikipedias artikel om Francis M. Wilhoit och beskriver den till honom felaktig tillskrivna ”Wilhoits lag”. Denna lyder: ”Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit