Results for “personal”
Publications and talks 4
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
2017
Talk
The boundary of love: art, paranoia and forgetting
2016
Talk
Presencing the writer: power and personality in A Clockwork Orange
Blog posts 10
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…
9 Feb, 2023
A bit of family history
Mesteparten av det du finner på denne bloggen er skrevet på engelsk. Men det er ikke noen grunn til at det ikke også kan postes ting her på norsk. Dette innlegget er derfor forfattet i dette lille, re…
17 Jan, 2022
Inscriptions 5, n1, is out
Inscriptions 5, n1, is out with ten original essays on Being and event. With this issue we inaugurate our initiative for Creative criticism, while modifying our publication practices for visual arts. …
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…
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 Feb, 2018
When the family historian leaves: Per Edfeldt (1939- 2018)
We all have to go in the end. Nevertheless when someone close to us departs it leaves a gap and a trace. Who was this person who left us last night?
Our family historian, Per Edfeldt (1939-2018), was…
24 Nov, 2017
New publication: Bergman on alienation and creativity
An article was recently published in Appraisal, the journal of the British Personalist Forum, on two films by Ingmar Bergman with questions of anxiety, alienation, and creativity. When the main charac…
16 Nov, 2017
Presencing the writer: Jon Fosse and ecstatic communion
An essay discussing Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s notion of the immanent writer in relation to film (A Clockwork Orange and Naked) was recently published by Vernon Press in a collection edited by S…
15 Dec, 2016
Schopenhauer’s lineage
Schopenhauer is well known for his assertion that what disappears with our demise is the most vulgar and uninteresting part of our existence: in other words, when we die our individuality goes away. T…
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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