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Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House, seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.
Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist
Urban Futures from Essentials to Experiences - The transformative role of marketplaces in 21st century cities
Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereInformality is on the rise. From remote labour and services-on-demand to food trucks and pop-up shops, its transformat
Christian Rossipal
I primarily do research in film and media studies but also work as a filmmaker and curator. My main interests lie in film archives, migration, and media archaeology. I have published my research in jou, , and , and have taught at New York University and the City University of New York.

World Values Survey Cultural Map
This animation tries to describe the change in values in different countries over a period of more than 30 years. Read more about the map at www.worldvaluessurvey.com. The animation is created in c
Never eat a Pigeon with a Pumpkin: a model for the emergence and fixation of unsupported beliefs
This work was presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023, and a shortened form of the paper is Chapter 30 in Food Rules and Rituals: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Coo
Gustaf Arrhenius receives prolonged appointment as director of the institute
What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201
Modes of Re-Territorialisation: Spatial Implications of Regional Competition Politics in Sweden
In Sweden, efforts to develop knowledge based niches have become key elements in an increasingly growth oriented regional/industrial policy. This paper addresses the spatial implications of these chan

Completed: How do human norms form and change?
Many societies are dominated by norms that are, in the long run, harmful to their members. How can these norms change?
Mistake is to Myth What Pretense is to Fiction: A Reply to Goodman.
Philosophia 45(3): 1275–1282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9812-5. Abstract In this reply I defend Kripke’s creationist thesis for mythical objects (Reference and Existence, 2013) against Jeffrey Go). I argue that Goodman has mistaken the basis for when mythical abstracta are created. Contrary to Goodman I show that, as well as how, Kripke’s theory consistently retains the analogy between creation of mythical objects and creation of fictional objects, while also explaining in what way they differ.