Joen Marklund

Joen Marklund is interested in the politics of the Anthropocene, literature and Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time on the BBC. After recently having finished How I Met Your Mother, admittedly a bit late, a friend recommended him Friends. However, he remains very reluctant, as he also was, in fact, before watching How I Met Your Mother—a show he came to love. When asked why, though, he can’t give a straight answer.

Philosophy

– “What is with all these books?” – “I stopped having sex.”

By Joen Marklund In a Seinfeld-episode from 1996, George Costanza discovers he can’t have sex with his girlfriend due to her mononucleosis. Initially disappointed, the absence

Science & Technology

Dishwashers and Freedom

By Joen Marklund We read about it all the time: jobs disappearing through automation and technological development. At first thought to be restricted to low-tier jobs,