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Publications and talks 3
2023
Peer-reviewed
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy
This essay investigates whether the term national signification may serve better than the more common national identity to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves and t…
2022
Talk
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
This paper investigates whether the term *national signification* may serve better than the more common *national identity* to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves a…
2017
Article
Videodømming og fotball som instrument
Morgenbladet
Blog posts 14
13 Apr, 2026
A bit about the Net Worker
The task of [the net worker](https://www.ereignis.no/about/about) is to generate linkages between academics, and between academics and artists. These networks are themselves generative, in that they i…
13 May, 2024
Flinke piker og slemme gutter
Dette innlegget er tidligere publisert i nettavisen Subjekt.
Oppfatningen av jenter som søte, snille og stort sett føyelige, og gutter som høyrøstede, brutale og oftere slemme får store konsekvenser …
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…
11 Oct, 2023
Review of reader in sports philosophy is out
My review of Jason Holt’s new edited collection of essays on sports philosophy is out and in print in the journal Teaching Philosophy 46, no. 3. In the review I write that Philosophy of Sport: Core Re…
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…
22 Mar, 2023
New essay on elite athletes
My essay “Bourdieu’s Field Theory Revisited: A Case for ‘National Signification’” has been published by Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Assoc…
9 Feb, 2023
A bit of family history
Mesteparten av det du finner på denne bloggen er skrevet på engelsk. Men det er ikke noen grunn til at det ikke også kan postes ting her på norsk. Dette innlegget er derfor forfattet i dette lille, re…
20 Jul, 2021
John Fiske has passed
To those interested in Media Studies, and particularly early Cultural Studies of Television, John Fiske was a powerhouse. Sadly, he passed on July 12, 2021, due to complications following heart surger…
25 Oct, 2020
Radical OA as a front
Academic publishing has undergone great changes the last few years. One major driver in this change is the relatively recent adoption by the European Union of the Plan S initiative, a codex implemente…
6 Sep, 2019
Instruction with a certified teacher in Norwegian and English
Learn to communicate fluently in Norwegian or English with the aid of state-of-the-art techniques, cutting edge technology, and great selections of exercises to get you talking and writing in no time.…
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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