Results for “meaning”
Publications and talks 5
2025
Talk
Deep ecological sport? Notes toward a critique of Næss
Gunnar Breivik has proposed a set of guidelines for outdoor activities that are similar in certain respects to sports, and that satisfy what Breivik refers to as ‘criteria for ecological awareness’ (2020). He takes the …
2025
Peer-reviewed
A Silent Leap: Sport Beyond Ethics
Sport and Religion: Antiquity, Modernity and Contemporaneity
It is safe to say that the conjuncture of sport and religion has received scant attention in the mainstream of sports philosophy. In the recent voluminous and authoritative Routledge Handbook of Sports Philosophy (2017)…
2024
Talk
Concluding words: silence and meaning
2024
Talk
A silent leap: sport beyond ethics
It is safe to say that the conjuncture of sport and religion has received scant attention in the mainstream of sports philosophy. In the recent voluminous and authoritative Routledge Handbook of Sports Philosophy (2017)…
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…
Blog posts 12
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…
14 Sep, 2024
Concluding words: Silence and meaning
Very briefly to round off this conference and I will just go straight into it. It won’t be very long so that we can have a nice rest all of us.First I will do some pragmatics, even though I’m not the …
27 Jul, 2021
The Doors (of Perception)
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
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…
11 Sep, 2020
Ereignis: the thought
We are expanding the Library of our Ereignis website. Recently we added some more detail to our approach to what the term Ereignis might mean. Does it ring true or interesting to you? We’d be very int…
28 Feb, 2020
Book out on utopos: Veisland edits Wuthering Heights
utopos publishing, the English-language imprint of Tankebanen forlag, is out with a new volume in our series Know Your Classics. In this book Professor Jørgen Veisland edits and introduces Emily Bront…
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…
23 Oct, 2017
Video essays on Badiou and Nietzsche
We have now posted these two video essays on the Ereignis web-site:
To Alain Badiou salvation and redemption are meaningful terms to us even today. Badiou reads Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegg…
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…
20 Nov, 2016
Private language
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 …
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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