Results for “literature”
Publications and talks 8
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 …
2020
Article
Hamsun's betrayals
CSS Conference 2019: Scandinavian Languages and Literatures World Wide
Knut Hamsun's late life was characterised by a sequence of betrayals, most notably his support for the Nazi occupation of Norway. This paper investigates how Hamsun utilised these acts of treachery to mount a unique def…
2019
Talk
Hamsun's betrayals: psychoanalysis, treason, art
2018
Peer-reviewed
Presencing the writer: immanence and ecstatic communion in A Clockwork Orange and Naked
Looking at the Sun: new writings in modern Personalism
2016
Talk
Presencing the writer: power and personality in A Clockwork Orange
2013
Talk
A leap out of vanity: Kierkegaard, Kingo and the im-potentialities of our post-modern times
The work of the Baroque masters, such as the vanitas of Danish poet Thomas Kingo, serves to remind us of our post-modern fix. They signify our in-ability to realize the potentialities of our social circumstances. May ne…
1999
Talk
Ways of surviving: professional scapegoating in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying
1997
Talk
The broken mirror: Henry Parland's Sönder and Lacan's 'Mirror Stage'
Blog posts 8
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…
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…
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…
9 Dec, 2019
Perversion’s Beyond reviewed in Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature
The international journal Interdicsiplinary Studies of Literature features a review of Perversion’s Beyond written by Professor Jørgen Veisland in their most recent issue. Veisland writes:
Dr. Fje…
4 Dec, 2019
Fosse in support of Handke
In these times when literature is sold cheaply and those who raise the banner of arts as a distinct domain are in short supply it is refreshing to review a statement made by the highly acclaimed Norwe…
9 Jul, 2019
On Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse (1959-) is translated from his native Norwegian (he writes in nynorsk), to more than 40 languages. He is widely acclaimed as a pivotal voice in contemporary fiction. Since his debut with the…
6 Jun, 2019
Watch: talk on Hamsun and psychoanalysis
Here is a video taped talk on Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun’s On Overgrown Path and his relation to psychoanalysis. After the war Hamsun was accused of treason and subjected to involuntary psychiatric ex…
5 Jul, 2017
Video lecture on Kierkegaard and Agamben
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…
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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