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
I have taught at many universities in North America, Europe, and Africa, including the University of Minnesota, Roehampton University, the University of Gdańsk, and the University of kwaZulu/Natal. I am Head of the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of Inscriptions. My latest books are Introducing Ereignis: philosophy, technology, way of life and Perversion’s Beyond: life at the edge of knowledge. I have published many articles, editorials, and op-eds; you can read many of them for free by following links on the articles page. And here is a page entirely dedicated to poetry in translation! This site has a cookie policy.
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