Results for “global”
Publications and talks 5
2025
Talk
Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess
From the dead to the living. Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize in literature can on the heels of a lifelong investigation of the possibility we have for communicating with the dead. His texts and the characters that inhabit them …
2021
Talk
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…
2016
Talk
Listening as praising: transversing power in Bergman's The Shame
2016
Peer-reviewed
Out of time, or Anderson's national temporality revisited
Networking Knowledges
In his influential study Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson makes the claim that a novel conception of time is inaugurated by the introduction of nations: in contrast to the agrarian sense of time as cyclical and c…
2014
Peer-reviewed
National, authentic, excessive: toward a globalized body of sports
Altitude
Blog posts 11
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…
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…
3 Jul, 2020
Inscriptions 3, n2: Power in a time of pandemic is out
Among our key questions in this open issue is the relation between the subject and power: what is the substance and appearance of the sovereign, what is the domain and limits of state power, and what …
17 Jun, 2020
CfP Inscriptions 4, n1: Artificial Life: ethics and the good life
Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2020. Full manuscripts due 15 October 2020.
Ethics, the question of how to live right and well, has been one of philosophy’s key concerns from its beginnings. In…
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 …
25 Jan, 2019
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 interrogates…
23 Aug, 2018
CfP: The global unconscious: art, technology, science
Inscriptions, a journal of contemporary thinking on art, philosophy, and psycho-analysis, invites contributions to our upcoming issue on the global unconscious. We are looking for well-crafted and ski…
14 Sep, 2017
Praise for dressage and illusio
Professor Sigmund Loland, former principal of Norway’s Elite sports college, has praised the book dressage and illusio: sport, nation and the new global body:
… enters directly into current philosoph…
28 Jul, 2017
Everything you need to know about sport in the global media
New book by Torgeir Fjeld out on Scholars’ Press. Among the key questions raised in this book are:
Has globalization come to an end or are we forever shaped by the centrifugal forces that bind us eve…
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…
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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