Ragnar Hedenskog

Gothenburg, Sweden ❮ragnar.hedenskog@gmail.com❯

Projections

• ragzter — Experimental retrosynth
• A Nice Chat — Social experiment intended to integrate and bring people together, pioneered the web-based stranger chat concept (see anicechat.net for references)
• Philosophy of Life — A disastrous way of looking at life
• Safran — List manager for GNU Emacs (under endless development)

Influences

• Noam Chomsky — American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer
• Alfred Korzybski — Polish-American philosopher and scientist
• Richard D. James — British electronic musician
• Leonardo da Vinci — Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist and writer
• Sigmund Freud — Jewish-Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology
• Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский — Russian writer and essayist, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
• David Simon — American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series
• Autechre — English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester
• Franz Kafka — one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature
• Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин — Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility
• Douglas Hofstadter — American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity
• Donald Schön — Influential thinker in developing the theory and practice of reflective professional learning in the twentieth century
• Geir Jenssen — Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music
• Rembrandt — Dutch painter and etcher (see selected painting below)
• Olivier Messiaen — French composer, organist, and ornithologist
• Gilles Deleuze — French philosopher of the late 20th century
• Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης — Prominent Greek singer
• Boards of Canada — Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison (born June 1, 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born July 21, 1971)
• Kevin Doherty — Dark ambient artist from Glasgow, Scotland, specialising in sleep-conducive beatless ambient music which is both artistic as well as functional
• Kurt Gödel — Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher
• Dopamine — Neurotransmitter that occurs in a wide variety of animals, including both vertebrates and invertebrates

Philosopher in meditation by Rembrandt