Henrik KarlssonWhy Mutual Aid is More Efficient than MarketsMarkets are trust reducers. When functional, they make sure that you mainly need to trust one thing: that others will be self-interested…Jun 2, 2021Jun 2, 2021
Henrik KarlssonWhy writers live unfulfilling lives — and how to avoid itIn The Writing Life by Annie Dillard there is a scene that always makes me want to stop writing.Jan 27, 2021Jan 27, 2021
Henrik KarlssonSpeaking the unspeakableOn death and the ethics of non-fiction writingJan 25, 2021Jan 25, 2021
Henrik KarlssoninIn the Opposite DirectionHyperobjectsTelling the story of living my life makes me feel like a motorist who has stopped at a farm in Northern Ireland asking for directions.Dec 20, 2018Dec 20, 2018
Henrik KarlssonLetters drifting into the UnkownOn the island of St Kilda, beyond the Outer Hebrides, a few hundred people lived cut off from the world until 1930. Some cliffs that…Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018
Henrik KarlssoninIn the Opposite DirectionOn relating the unrelatableI once did a poetry reading as a friend lay dying in the hospital.Nov 22, 2018Nov 22, 2018
Henrik KarlssoninIn the Opposite DirectionPraising a bestial realityWhen Dante finds out how God metes out justice, he is close to vomiting.Nov 19, 2018Nov 19, 2018
Henrik KarlssoninIn the Opposite DirectionBecoming what the thoughts pass throughTove sleeps and I step out into the woods next to the apartment, turning on Chopin’s Nocturnes. Lying in the moss, meditating, I realize…Nov 18, 2018Nov 18, 2018
Henrik KarlssoninIn the Opposite DirectionThe Opposite DirectionOne morning on his way to school, Thomas Bernhard turned around in the middle of the street and began to go in what he would later call…Nov 17, 2018Nov 17, 2018
