Results for “power”
Publications and talks 6
2023
Peer-reviewed
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy
This essay investigates whether the term national signification may serve better than the more common national identity to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves and t…
2022
Talk
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
This paper investigates whether the term *national signification* may serve better than the more common *national identity* to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves a…
2017
Peer-reviewed
In the isle of the Mountain King: Bergman on Shame and the call of art
Appraisal
The present article reconnects two of Ingmar Bergman's films from the mid '60s to notions of anxiety, alienation and creativity. Shame, a film set in a village ravaged by war, provides the viewer with three senses of tr…
2016
Talk
Listening as praising: transversing power in Bergman's The Shame
2016
Talk
Presencing the writer: power and personality in A Clockwork Orange
2015
Article
Clandestine acclaim: how spectacles conceal our praise of power
Oxford Left Review
Blog posts 17
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…
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…
2 Jan, 2023
A warmer year
It has become something of a common-place for social power-brokers to issue statements to mark the end of an old year and the beginning of a new. Kings do it, prime ministers and presidents do it, and…
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…
19 Jan, 2021
Riise to coach Lionesses
Hege Riise has been appointed new head coach of England Women, the Lionesses. When we met for an interview 20 years ago Riise, herself an accomplished international, emphasised how sport has the power…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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.
Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.