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Publications and talks 8

2023
Talk
The national object: accounting for subjectivity after anthropocentrism

Contemporary debates on nationalism are caught in a recurring impasse: sociologists in the tradition of Elias treat national attachment as a matter of individual choice — an identity that can, in principle, be supersede…

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2023
Talk
Beyond dualism: Homo Generator, antagonism, agonism

From Plato’s famous dualism of body and soul we are today confronted with a plethora of perspectives promising to overcome historical dichotomies, and putting in their place a promise of social unity and reconciliation.…

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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…

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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…

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2008
Talk
From games to play: sports as art forms
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2005
Article
Signifying the body: nation, sport and the cultural analysis of {Pierre Bourdieu}

The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A…

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2003
Talk
Soccer as game, soccer as play: towards a reading of mass mediated culture past structuralism
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2001
Peer-reviewed
Soccer rites
Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies
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Blog posts 14

12 Jun, 2023
Welcome speech at the 2023 Ereignis Conference
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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…
14 Jul, 2022
Statistical outliers
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These are strange times, also for Americans. We read in the New York Times that – expectedly – opinion in that country on matters such as gun control, abortion, presidential self-management, etc, is d…
27 Jul, 2021
The Doors (of Perception)
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We’re fortunate to have good access to updates on American popular culture on our television. Recently we watched a documentary on the popular music outfit The Doors, When You’re Strange (dir. Tom DiC…
20 Jul, 2021
John Fiske has passed
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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…
14 Jan, 2020
Scruton, the grateful philosopher, departs
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Roger Scruton, a friend of Central Europe, author, teacher, and philosopher, has passed. In what surely must be one of his last living publications Scruton declared in The Spectator that 2019 gave him…
25 Jan, 2019
New issue of Inscriptions: the global unconscious
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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 interrogates…
23 Feb, 2018
When the family historian leaves: Per Edfeldt (1939- 2018)
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We all have to go in the end. Nevertheless when someone close to us departs it leaves a gap and a trace. Who was this person who left us last night? Our family historian, Per Edfeldt (1939-2018), was…
5 Jul, 2017
Video lecture on Kierkegaard and Agamben
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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 K…
20 Nov, 2016
Private language
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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” posted …
17 Nov, 2016
Exhumation
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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 tragedy…
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. Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.
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