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Publications and talks 6
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
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)…
2021
Inscriptions
After religion: the commitment and love of This Life. Review of This Life: secular faith and spiritual freedom, by Mart…
Inscriptions
Review of Hägglund, Martin (2019), This Life: secular faith and spiritual freedom, Anchor Books: New York.
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…
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
1997
Talk
The broken mirror: Henry Parland's Sönder and Lacan's 'Mirror Stage'
Blog posts 50
14 Apr, 2026
Ereignis Center: 2025 in Review
**Organisation and Registration**
We have initiated a formal registration process with the National Voluntary Organisations Register (*Frivillighetsregisteret*) in Norway. Public registration is requ…
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…
6 Jun, 2025
How many readers do we have?
Certainly, in a digital era this question cannot be simply answered by referring to the number of copies sold or otherwise in circulation. Page hits (such as provided by Google Analytics or Matomo) ca…
12 Apr, 2025
New publication: A Silent Leap: Sport Beyond Ethics
There is a new volume of essays out on Sport and Religion, edited by the talented Constantino Pereira Martins and Luísa Ávila da Costa. I have been fortunate enough to be included in it with an essay …
7 Mar, 2025
New publication: Jon Fosse and negative mysticism
The fine folks at mongrel matter is out with a new collection of essays, Philosophy of Final Words. It features 25 contributions on death, dying, epitaphs, and many more topics connected to thinking o…
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 …
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 Feb, 2024
Ruminations: Article 5 and the future of Nato
Right, so in so far as Mr Trump’s point is that we should pay our bills he is right. We small people, we who dream of one day having sufficient wealth to live well in this world, don’t we imagine that…
20 Dec, 2023
2023: my life as a publisher
It's strange how I can't stop thinking about Laika. People shouldn't think so much. “Time heals all wounds,” Mrs. Arvidsson says. Mrs. Arvidsson says some wise things. You have to try t…
23 Oct, 2023
Paleontology and poetry: new poem by Ulven in translation
Ulven’s early work is playful, with surprising turns and unusual imagery. The central figure in this collection is the urfugl, or “original bird,” whose shade has given name to the book. The Archaeopt…
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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