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Publications and talks 2
2022
Peer-reviewed
The silence of the educated
Journal of Silence Studies in Education
This essay presents Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of education. As a "living philosopher" Schirmacher's thought should be regarded as standing at a critical and engaged distance to official, consecrated philosophy. …
1999
Article
School Sports in Norway
Blog posts 12
20 Apr, 2026
Crunching the learner
Many children find it hard to accept the regime around school, the dressing, the sitting still, the memorisation, the testing. Is it always irrational to stand up against this model of learning?
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 …
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…
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…
7 Dec, 2022
Living philosophy: new essay on Schirmacher’s philosophy of education
For Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy has always been as much about “doing” as about “knowing”; the domains of traditional essays and other forms of philosophical praxis are deeply connected. In a new e…
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…
18 Jul, 2019
Sports make us see our bodies differently
dressage and illusio, my study of how perceptions of our body is shaped through sports in school and in the mass media, is still available (for example from Amazon). Professor Sigmund Loland, a major …
2 May, 2018
Wolfgang Schirmacher on Ereignis
Professor Wolfgang Schirmacher (New School for Social Research, European Graduate School) will be coming to the 2018 Ereignis Seminar in scenic Lofoten, Norway, in October to speak on the event. Will …
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…
10 Jan, 2018
On Melgaard and Munch at MECCSA 2018, London
Upcoming presentation: The 2018 MECCSA Conference at the School of Arts & Creative Industries, London South Bank University tomorrow with a talk on Norwegian-Australian artist Bjarne Melgaard and …
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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