The French Revolution and today’s Digital REvolution

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Listen to the story: The power of words, both its aesthetics, spirit and influence are often mentioned. To borrow a few words from the short story collection Bordertraveller Stories by LarsGoran Bostrom (that will be published within the coming weeks): “Outside the arena ruling a relative calm. Some kind of lecture is going on. This is where the well-formed phrases get air and will travel through decades, centuries, and even millennials. The spectators do not know that. They do not know that the wisdom of this man will survive all the faces of inhumanity. The tooth of time cannot bite… Read more

Leonardo Da Vinci’s sixteen design codes

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Listen to the story: Leonardo Da Vinci is most famous for his work as an artist and the so-called central perspective in this visual art form. In addition, his scientific experimentation with exciting discoveries and descriptions for the future is also widely known. Besides this, he was a distinguished musician, which was an area where he gained a lot of inspiration, not least to give his writing a new dimension and sides. In total, five thousand written pages are preserved from his hand. There are five thousand pages of visions of especially art, science and life in general. Five thousand… Read more

IN>D:Valley and 360 degrees comics

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Meet Leo and his life in the adventurous tech-intensive society IN>D:Valley. His family and neighbourhood, his school, and his creative mind. The first episode will be published soon in the form of a 360 degrees comics, a format that is an adventure in itself. 360 degrees comics are developed in the SOE PublishingLab, does it look interesting? Please, contact us for more information. Read more

Return of the Republic of Scholars – From Erasmus until now

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Listen to the story: During the Renaissance, academics and students walked between the growing number of universities. This roving academic life still existed to some extent in the 19th century, as the author Karl Kullberg testifies in a travelogue from Europe 1842 (only available in Swedish). There he encounters, among other things, some English students along his path. In their search for knowledge and engaging learning environments of their choice. As the centuries passed, however, this goal and perspective were gradually abandoned. It was a transformation from learning as a personal educational journey to an education based on the requirements of… Read more

Creativity bridges in the world of books

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Listen to the story: “Let your work be in tune with your purpose,” Leonardo Da Vinci wrote. This can be seen as obvious, but in practice, it should nevertheless be seen as a guide, an objective. This is what the theory of reflexivity among other things proclaims. A theory based on the real circumstances of participating people. Creativity is in this perspective the bridge over which one crosses the river of uncertainty. Unconscious consequences In a transformative time, creativity is the very bridge that leads to the new and away from the old. One can borrow the terminology from George… Read more

Amos Oz on the art of writing and a cure for fanatics

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The author Amos Oz describes his childhood as an atmosphere of Tolstoy’s philosophy and a daily conflict, and from this, his writing was born. The city he grew up in was at that time one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world with German, Armenian and Jewish quarters, a Greek and an American colony, as well as the Arab neighborhoods. Oz describes it as loosely composed districts during his childhood in the 1940s where tensions existed but no violence. The city where the author grew up was Jerusalem to which his parents in the 1930s managed to escape from… Read more

A tale of two cities

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This is the beginning of Charles Dickens’ novel “A Tale of two Cities” from 1859. This masterpiece came out in the same year as the philosophical reflection “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill which had such a profound impact on the further development of society. Where Mill describes a vision for a prosperous humanistic social development based on the individual. Dickens focuses on the problem that where many see opportunities, others only find risks. In such a perspective, the degree of well-being is very unequally distributed. Because when… Read more

Mark Twain’s essay on the art of telling a story

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Mark Twain’s authorship is timeless as the words weigh heavy and find new nourishment through decades and centuries. For example, the short story collection Gränsfarare (in Swedish) and with the translated title Bordertraveller stories that will be published in August 2020, which is the starting point for this blog, begins with words from his inspiring pen. Below Mark Twain’s essay “How to tell a story” is published in a complete version. __________________________________________________ HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Story an American Development.–Its difference from Comic and Witty Stories.   I do not claim that I can tell a story… Read more

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Bordertraveller blog opens with 360-degree comics and text-audio stories

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Very welcome to the Bordertraveller blog. It is focusing on books, publishing and the society in general, and it is the English version of Gränsfararebloggen (in Swedish) that has been around for a while. Besides publishing stories to read and listen to, the blog also will include more interactive experiences like the 360-degree comics that we are launching now, see below, there is much more to come. Using 360-degree comics To use a 360-degree comics strip experience you drag the strip clockwise. As you follow the comics strip you will find additional integrated features like audio, video, text, links and… Read more

Europe before the misery of nationalism

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Listen to the story When the author Karl Kullberg travelled through a fairly peaceful Europe in 1842, the map looked much different than today. Germany, for example, had about thirty years to go until its final unification and Italy for about twenty years. Both before and after the upheavals of the mid-19th century, Europe’s internal borders have been in constant motion, and almost exclusively because of victories and losses on the battlefield. A fact that led the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, to designate national borders as the worst invention ever created by politicians. Especially in the way… Read more