Results for “Being”
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2021
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Being/ruptured: Bruce Lee's liberation as event
This paper explores the tension between the perceived “wholeness” of Bruce Lee as a cultural icon and the inherent trauma and fragmentation of the human experience. While sociological readings often frame Lee as a symbo…
Blog posts 25
20 Apr, 2026
Crunching the learner
Many children find it hard to accept the regime around school, the dressing, the sitting still, the memorisation, the testing. Is it always irrational to stand up against this model of learning?
The …
6 Mar, 2026
Spinning the web of philosophy: a short guide to online platforms for scholars
Academia.edu is perhaps the most prominent name in academic file-sharing, though the name itself is something of a false credential: the site would not qualify for a .edu domain under current rules, b…
7 Mar, 2025
New publication: Jon Fosse and negative mysticism
The fine folks at mongrel matter is out with a new collection of essays, Philosophy of Final Words. It features 25 contributions on death, dying, epitaphs, and many more topics connected to thinking o…
14 Sep, 2024
Concluding words: Silence and meaning
Very briefly to round off this conference and I will just go straight into it. It won’t be very long so that we can have a nice rest all of us.First I will do some pragmatics, even though I’m not the …
20 Dec, 2023
2023: my life as a publisher
It's strange how I can't stop thinking about Laika. People shouldn't think so much. “Time heals all wounds,” Mrs. Arvidsson says. Mrs. Arvidsson says some wise things. You have to try t…
8 Sep, 2023
New novels: The HoF circle
In recent weeks, I have been reading two books by authors affiliated with the art collective and and literature center House of Foundation (HoF) in Moss, Norway. In addition to several smaller studios…
12 Jun, 2023
Welcome speech at the 2023 Ereignis Conference
Hello everyone, and welcome to this third Ereignis conference.
The theme of this year’s conference, Beyond Dualism, resonates with debates that have a long and venerable history in thought. Many o…
17 Jan, 2022
Inscriptions 5, n1, is out
Inscriptions 5, n1, is out with ten original essays on Being and event. With this issue we inaugurate our initiative for Creative criticism, while modifying our publication practices for visual arts. …
12 Apr, 2021
Being/Ruptured: Bruce Lee’s liberation as event
The liberation of Bruce Lee was and indeed is an event that doesn’t promise to heal the rupture of the self, the fighter, or being, but that seeks to overcome divisions in order to incorporate them an…
14 Jan, 2021
CfP Event and Becoming: the Inaugural Ereignis Conference
June 11, 2021. How does the event puncture the smooth flow of becoming? And what is it like, the event in which we become ourselves? These are among our key questions in this first Ereignis conference…
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). His publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019), with articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and elsewhere. He serves as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions, and has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa.
Torgeir Fjeld‘s latest talk was “Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess” at 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Gdańsk, University of Gdańsk, Poland in November 2025.
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