Henrik Karlsson
Person on 4 sites
Henrik Karlsson is a Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a Substack of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and agency, often shaped with his wife Johanna.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Writes: Escaping Flatland, essays on Substack (opens wiqqi.app)
- Published in: WIRED, Asterisk, The Spectator (opens wiqqi.app)
- Before: Programmer, factory worker, poet, teacher, lab technician, art gallery coordinator (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Escaping Flatland (opens www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
“A project of one’s own”
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x.com: @phokarlsson (opens x.com)
“If you chain four of those timers you can put in an electric socket, you can get a lamp to turn on for fifteen minutes every thousand years, in case you need that.”
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Newsletter: Escaping Flatland (opens www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
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15 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Commercial pop, hip-hop and rock are three villages in the same small valley of the space of possible music. (opens korrents.com)
“when you put them next to the endless diversity of art and world music, it's clear that commercial pop, hip-hop, and rock are really three villages in the same small valley.”
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Most possible musical systems are barren, and only a very small subset of the infinite possible musics resonate with people. (opens korrents.com)
“Most of the landscapes we would find if we enumerated all possible musical grammars would be barren. There are an infinite number of possible musics, and only a very small subset of them will resonate with the human…”
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If art is what happens when a work interacts with a mind, the experiences artists can create are limited by the quality of their audiences. (opens korrents.com)
“if art is what happens when a certain prompt (a song, an essay, a painting) interacts with a certain mind, the experiences that artists can create is strictly limited by the quality of their audiences.”
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Commercial pop, hip-hop and rock are three villages in the same small valley of the space of possible music. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Pensées (opens rcmnd.app)
“A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…”
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Conquest of the Useless (opens rcmnd.app)
“A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…”
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Carnets (opens rcmnd.app)
“A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…”
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Pensées (opens rcmnd.app)