Tag: culture

25 Jan 19
New issue of Inscriptions: the global unconscious
Inscriptions is out with volume 2, n1 (2019), on “The global unconscious: art, technology, science.” Featuring articles in the traditions of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, this issue interrog…
05 Jul 17
Video lecture on Kierkegaard and Agamben
This video is a recording of a paper presented at a conference dvoted to Søren Kierkegaard at the University of Gdansk, Poland, in April 2013. The paper discusses the notion of leaps that we find in …
20 Nov 16
Private language
There’s two things that’s exactly right and one thing that’s possibly more questionable about the private language argument posed by Edmund Gordon in his article “Biography in the Twitter age…
17 Nov 16
Exhumation
After the Prince was torn away in tragic circumstances Our debt to him could only be settled by uncovering the cause In a spectral apparition the Prince said: “Find out the reason for the trage…
13 Nov 16
Dressage and illusio
What should we make of the terms dressage and illusio in the context of sports? Dressage is a way to make bodies submit, to domesticate and somatise, so that they can be governed and mastered. In spo…
07 Nov 16
New poem in translation
Snow can cover things up, bury people and objects, draw a blanket over the dead, turn darkness into whiteness, alter the light. Here’s a translation of a historical poem on a situation that was cont…
03 Nov 16
Nietzsche’s rejection of happiness
Nietzsche makes no secret of that it is Schopenhauer – Europe’s great pessimist – that is his true and most magnificent teacher. It is from him that Nietzsche got his idea of the will as essenti…
18 Oct 16
Ginsberg on Miłosz on Ginsberg
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies. America I used to be a communist when I was a kid, I’m not sorry. Allen Ginsberg, America Did I fulfill what I had to do, here, on earth? Czesław …
About Torgeir Fjeld
Writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). Latest publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019) and articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and others. Presently serving as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions. Fjeld has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa. Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.
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