Results for “education”
Publications and talks 3
2022
Peer-reviewed
The silence of the educated
Journal of Silence Studies in Education
This essay presents Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of education. As a "living philosopher" Schirmacher's thought should be regarded as standing at a critical and engaged distance to official, consecrated philosophy. …
2013
Article
Motivasjon, mestring, kvalitet
I skolen
1999
Article
School Sports in Norway
Blog posts 8
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…
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 …
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…
7 Dec, 2022
Living philosophy: new essay on Schirmacher’s philosophy of education
For Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy has always been as much about “doing” as about “knowing”; the domains of traditional essays and other forms of philosophical praxis are deeply connected. In a new e…
18 Jul, 2019
Sports make us see our bodies differently
dressage and illusio, my study of how perceptions of our body is shaped through sports in school and in the mass media, is still available (for example from Amazon). Professor Sigmund Loland, a major …
3 Jul, 2017
Some recent publications
“Out of time, or Anderson’s national temporality revisited” in Networking Knowledges, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016.
This peer-reveiwed paper discusses, among other things, the notion of Messianic time (Walter…
13 Feb, 2014
The Future of the (Online) University
The Economist writes about the innovative Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how they challenge the traditional higher education strucure of learning. The point here is that, while traditional co…
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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