Monthly Archives: November 2006

Regime types and regimes change — lecture #14

By terje | Published: November 29, 2006
Ways to classify — taxonomy. There are many different taxonomies for regime types, and a bewildering fauna of terms is frequently used carelessly, in ways that do more to befuddle than to clearify. The choice of terms usually not neutral, as a researcher may have a theory in which some feature is more important than others, [...]
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Casino Vulgaris

By terje | Published: November 29, 2006
And I don’t mean “vulgaris” in a depreciating way, but in a good one, if that makes any sense. Because finally, after some fourty years of sci-fi, James Bond is back as a secret agent whose knuckles aren’t afraid of a little dirty fighting in filthy Easter European public toilets, wthout any explosive gadgets or bleeping [...]
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Batman Forgettable?

By terje | Published: November 29, 2006
Before I begin on the day’s political science lecture, I thought I’d review the films I watched this weekend, starting with “Batman Forever“. It’s Schuemacher’s first, and while it is way, way, way better than “Batman & Robin“, it doesn’t come too near Burton’s two Batman films. First of all, let’s have a looksie at Batman [...]
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The scientific study of politics — lecture #13

By terje | Published: November 28, 2006
Bah, I seem to have grown a conscience over the night, so I was unable to watch much more than a couple of minutes of Heroes before realising that I should rather be typing out a set of lecture notes. (But I managed to play “Championship Manager Season 97-89″ before surrendering to this crap, so [...]
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Summary of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, season 1

By terje | Published: November 28, 2006
It’s only been one week since I received the Angel and Buffy DVD sets from Amazon, and I’ve already watched the first season of Buffy, so yay me! Or, to be more specific, yay my sister, because if it hadn’t been for her, it’d probably be a while before I started watching the series again. Anyway, [...]
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“Have you ever quoted Shakespeare with your beloved in a dark theatre hallway?” — AS3×13 Waiting In The Wings

By terje | Published: November 26, 2006
I gotta admit I was somewhat flabbergasted when Loki listed this episode as one of his 25 favourites, because I just remembered it as a mediocre episode with a lot of dull ballet. Man, was I wrong… This one’s awesome from beginning to end. All the way from the first scene, where Wes confides to Cordy [...]
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VanderMeer vs. Bakker

By terje | Published: November 24, 2006
It may be a little dated, but I just wrote a summary of the VanderMeer-Bakker debate fro this spring, over at fantasyforumet.net, and I advise everyone who cares about literature to read at least the two original essays and the interview, if not necessarily the discussion from VanderMeer’s blog, as it is somewhat tedious.
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An introduction to comparative politics — lecture #12

By terje | Published: November 24, 2006
So, we’re done with the international part of the course, and it’s time to have a look at the field of comparative politics. ————————————————————————————————————————– What is comparative politics? As usual, we start with a definition of the term, and that is that CP is the study of politics within one or more countries — thus leaving the relationship [...]
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Gobi next?

By terje | Published: November 24, 2006
So, I bought “Sahara” today, and after a nice dinner, me and my sister watched it. Frankly, my expectations were kinda low, because my only knowledge of this film came from a trailer I watched a month a go or so, and in my experience, these kinds of action-adventures often turns out to be disappointments [...]
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Tralala, tralla-lu…

By terje | Published: November 23, 2006
Diddle duddle daddle Dada daaaaaaaaa…
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