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LEVE I BYEN ELLER MED BYEN - BY OG LITTERATUR EFTER MODERNISMEN
Authors: Larsen Svend Erik
Published: October 2018

LIVING IN THE CITY OR LIVING WITH THE CITY. CITY AND LITERATURE AFTER MODERNISMSince the mid-18th century literature has been increasingly preoccupied with the city as the locus of modernity. Here everything that characterised modernity as a broad cultural andsocial development was assembled in the most concentrated and visible form, including the contradictions and ambiguities of modernity. The more that cities developed in size, functionand layout during the 19th and early 20th centuries on both a European and a global scale, the more detailed and ambiguous their effect became on literature and the other arts in the emerging new and changing old media, now gathered under the heterogeneous umbrella of modernism. The emergent field of sociology gave the city its theoretical and philosophical meta-reflection from around 1900. However, the modernist movement also locked the conception of the city in its own conceptualisation and representation, impeded a fresh view of the city of today on a global scale, and barred the way to an alternative view of previous urban history. This paper tries to open a door leading to the reconceptualisation of the city in relation to the study of literature by emphasising the notion of network andby analysing works by Jess Ørnsbo and Amitav Ghosh with brief reference to Jens Baggesen, Jon Dos Passos and Jens Smærup Sørensen.
Anmeldelse: ÆSTETIK OG POLITIK - METODEMÆSSIGE REFLEKSIONER PÅ FORANLEDNING AF TRE AKTUELLE ANTOLOGIER
Authors: Holm Isak Winkel
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse afHenrik Kaare Nielsen og Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (red.): Æstetik og politik. Analyser af politiske potentialer i samtidskunsten, Århus, 2008 (Klim)Marie Østergaard Møller & Sara Normann Thordsen (red.): Æstetik og politisk magt. Otte analyser af aktuelle forhold mellem æstetik og politik, Uppsala, 2008 (NSU-Press)Mikkel Bolt og Jacob Lund (red.): Fællesskabsfølelser. Kunst, politik, filosofi, Århus, 2009 (Klim)
Anmeldelse: KILDESMITTE. MIKKEL BOLT OG AVANTGARDENS IDEALISME
Authors: Wold Bendik
Published: October 2018

ANMELDELSE AFMikkel Bolt. Avantgardens selvmord, København, 2010 (Forlaget 28/6)
Den bogstavelig død. Det neobarokke vanitasmotiv i Durs Grünbeins "I provinsen" (1999)
Authors: Pedersen Elisabeth Skou
Published: October 2018

THE LITERAL DEATH. THE NEO-BAROQUE VANITAS MOTIF IN “IN THE PROVINCE”This paper investigates the use of Baroque imagery in the cycle of vanity poems “In the Province” (OIn der Provinz”) (1999) by the German poet Durs Grünbein (1962-). GrünbeinOs poetics revolves around a notion of human life as essentially material and physical. In his treatment of death, this point of view connects him with Baroque vanity poetry following the tradition of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664). On the basis of a concept of a transhistorical Baroque discourse, I discern a negotiation of Baroque tropes in the poems, focusing on the use of antithetical, analogical, and allegorical figures, as well as an objectifying gaze similar to that of the Baroque vanitas painting. Shifting the metaphysical framework of the historical Baroque to a predominantly physical one, Grünbein reinstates the value of the individual in its bodily existence, thereby reinterpreting the meaning of the OvanityO of material things. Comparing this formal remodelling to the postmodernist and modernist Neo-Baroque concepts, I argue that a reading of Grünbein’s vanitas can be used in a new conceptualization of the Neo-Baroque, which I term ‘dialogical’.
Tilsynekomstens politik. Om virkelighedsmodellering i Joseph Conrads Nostromo
Authors: Laursen Jonas Kjærgård
Published: October 2018

POLITICS OF APPEARANCE. ON REALITY MODELLING IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOSTROMOArtistically Nostromo is arguably the most ambitious of Joseph Conrad’s novels. It is also without a doubt the most explicitly political in that it openly engages with the question of how capitalism, imperialism, and revolution affect the human consciousness. There is however no agreement as to how this political problem is to be understood or, more precisely, what kind of understanding of the interrelationship between politics and literature is necessary when engaging this artwork. As a necessary supplement to both a 60’s Marxist reading and readings from the 70’s and 80’s dealing with ideological criticism, this article suggests a reading focusing on how the text creates a model of society by reconfiguring certain real life elements. By developing a specific artistic idiom Nostromo attempts to show the very limited view of the whole of society caused by, in the wording of the novel, the material interests of imperial capitalism. Under the inspiration of both Jurij Lotman and Jacques Rancière the analysis presented here is able to address some key political insights that appear as a consequence of the novelistic form when understood as a relatively autonomous model of society. And that is what is meant by the expression politics of appearance: the politics of literature is to be analysed as something generated by the specific gestalt of the text, as something that comes into sight with – and only with – the text.
Teorier om dufortællinger: En blindgyde?
Authors: Reitan Rolf
Published: October 2018

THEORIZING SECOND-PERSON NARRATIVES: A BACKWATER PROJECT? | In this paper Rolf Reitan proposes a closer look at three very different perspectives on second person narrative: Brian Richardson, Irene Kacandes, and Monika Fludernik have been classical references for some time, but they have never, according to Reitan, been seriously discussed. The paper begins by examining Kacandes’ intriguing concept of ‘radical narrative apostrophe’, and then discusses the three authors’ very different typological proposals. Borrowing Richardson’s idea of a Standard Form of second person narration, it returns to Butor’s La Modification to investigate the question of address (a pivotal question in Fludernik’s articles), which then leads to a strict definition of a prototypical “genre” of Standard Form narratives. Passing through conceptual landscapes of fiction, apostrophe, and postmodernism, some tricky questions concerning selfaddress,and some of Margolin’s analytic formulas, are considered. At last, by way of proposing a much needed subdivision of the Standard Form, Reitan discusses the strange narrating voice in La modification: not a narratorial voice, but a readerly voice created in the author’s writing.
Surrogatarrangemang, moderskap och nationalitet. Finlands riksdags debatter om legaliseringen av surrogatarrangemang
Authors: Kanckos Lise
Published: October 2018

Surrogacy, motherhood and nationality | Surrogacy arrangements were allowed in Finland, and were practiced to a small extent at four clinics, before the Act on Assisted Reproduction took effect on 1 September 2007. The political debate on surrogacy was at times lively during the preparations of the law. This article is based on a rhetoric and discourse analysis of discussions on surrogacy, maternity and nationality in the Finnish parliamentary debates concerning the legalisation of surrogacy. The material consists of three debates in 2002, 2006 and 2007, newspaper articles, a medical article and the website of a discussion forum. Surrogacy arrangements in Finland were often constructed in these debates as safe and controlled, and the Finnish surrogate was described as altruistic, while surrogates in other countries were constructed as rented wombs. These political discourses on surrogacy are also discussed in relation to a wider context of cross-border reproductive care and consumption.
Den gode sædcelle... En antropologisk analyse af arbejdet med sædkvalitet.
Authors: Mohr Sebastian , Høyer Klaus
Published: October 2018

THE GOOD SPERM CELL … | Questions about who has the right to be pregnant, and with whom, and which children should be allowed to be born are fundamentally political and normative. However, when fertilization involves reproductive tech nologies these normative questions are often translated into questions of quality whereby they come to appear technical. This becomes clear in thework to ensure “good sperm quality”. Sperm quality is measured both at a population level, in connection to fertility treatment of infertile men, in the recruitment of sperm donors and in connection with attempts to produce so-called artificial sperm. What is regarded as good quality is not only based on “medical evidence” but also on beliefs about what is wished for and what is not. Put differently, medical evidence is produced in light of specifically desired outcomes. This article asks how one determines sperm quality and what kind of practices and normative choices this evaluative process involves. The article builds on medical literature, fieldwork at both a laboratory dealing with sperm analysis and at sperm banks and on interviews with scientists working on the development of artificial sperm.
ARBEJDETS (MEGET) FILOSOFISKE BEGREBSHISTORIE
Authors: Stephensen Jan Løhmann
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af: LARS FR.H. SVENDSEN Arbejdets filosofiAarhus, 2010, 143 sider (Klim)
NÅR MAN VIDNER, ER DET ALTID FOR NOGEN
Authors: Sandbye Mette
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af JACOB LUND Erindringens ÆstetikAarhus, 2011, 176 sider (Klim)
INSTALLATIONSINDKREDSNINGER
Authors: Søndergaard Peter Brix
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af: ANNE RING PETERSEN Installationskunsten mellembillede og sceneKøbenhavn, 2009, 508 sider (Museum TusculanumsForlag) (Doktorafhandling)
Gerrard Winstanleys ikonoklasme som immanent utopi
Authors: Jespersen Mikkel Birk
Published: October 2018

GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S ICONOCLASM AS IMMANENT UTOPIA | In this article I analyse the utopian discourse of Gerrard Winstanley as an example of how utopia functions as a social fiction. Winstanley was part of the radical Digger movement in the English Revolution in the mid-17th century, and he has been regarded both as a religious mystic and as a precursor of later communist thinkers. His last published text, The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652), presents an egalitarian utopian program based on democracy and collective ownership of land. It has been arguedthat this text represents a break from Winstanley’s earlier religious and political writings because of its focus on the institutional framework of the proposed utopian model. I argue, however, that it is generally more productive to focus on the function of utopia and to see utopia as both a figurative and conceptual discourse which combines a deconstruction of ideological contradictions with a production of new sociopolitical representations. This approach allows us to analyse how Winstanley creates a utopian discourse based on a “materialistic” iconoclasm which produces a dynamic, immanent utopia. Rather than being a totalitarian vision, as some have argued, Winstanley’s egalitarian and immanent utopia dismantles the distinction between state and society. Utopia should be seen as a discourse which, through its use of sociopolitical fictions, is able to bring out different sociopolitical dimensionsand potentials of a specific historical conjuncture by articulating the non-realized futures of history.
Performative utopier i samtidskunsten
Authors: Jalving Camilla , Laurberg Marie
Published: October 2018

PERFORMATIVE UTOPIAS IN CONTEMPORARY ART | The article deals with the current interest in the notion of utopia within contemporary visual art and theory. It is argued that utopia as a concept and area of investigation has returned on the contemporary art scene, albeit in a remarkably new way. If modernism presented utopia as a final vision for a better society, utopia is now articulated in a less ambitious way, in the vein of the much more modest question “what if”? Basing its argument on art projects by Andrea Zittel, Olafur Eliasson, Francis Alÿs and Tomàs Saraceno among others, the article puts forward the notion of a “performative utopia” – a utopia that is enacted rather than represented, and which is thus contextually and situationally defined. In the article the notion of a performative utopia is related to Nicolas Bourriaud’s idea of the “microutopia” and Fredric Jameson’s distinction between utopia as program and impulse. In conclusion it is stated that in as much as the contemporary utopia does not necessarily describe a fixed reality, its main objective is to project new visions. Hence, its criticality is not descriptively based, but lies in its ability to present a counter-image that calls on the imagination of the viewer. A plea is made for this kind of criticality as it is argued that challenging the boundaries of our imagination in itself constitutes a true cultural transformation.
Kändisförfattarens varumärke i Finland
Authors: Hypén Tarja-Lisa
Published: October 2018

THE BRAND OF THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR IN FINLAND | In the 21st century, the celebrity author has begun to interest researchers not only as a marketing phenomenon, but also as the literary institution’s own phenomenon. In my article, I explore the relationship of the celebrity author to the so-called acclaimed authors of modern times. In Anglo-American research, the celebrity author and the bestselling author are distinguished as separate author types, but in the case of Finnish Jari Tervo, these types combine. For almost 20 years, Jari Tervo has been amongboth the most sold and the most visible celebrity authors in his home country. I examine how the publicity and brand of the Finnish celebrity author are formed. I consider how the brand affects the author’s works on the one hand, and the reception of the works on the other. I point out the limiting effects of the brand, but I also examine how, in combining the high and the low, it affords mobility in the literary fields while it also offers an opportunity to influence society.
EN SERIØS SPROGTEORETISK FIKTIONALITETSDEFINITION
Authors: Gjerlevsen Simona Zetterberg
Published: October 2018

A SERIOUS LINGUISTIC DEFINITION OF FICTIONALITY | Fiction is often defined in terms of “something which does not exist” or “something related to art”. Richard Walsh, however, uses the term “fictionality” to describe a phenomenon which is not just seen as opposed to reality and not limited to generic genres such as movies, novels and short-stories. Fictionality is a feature which is not only ascribed to what we normally categorize as fiction, but something which also exists within the frame of everyday communication (Walsh 2007). Richard Walsh expounds many of the benefits which derive from using the notion of fictionality, but does not come up with an exact definition of the concept. At one point, Walsh considers the idea of viewing fictionality as an indirectspeech act as proposed by Gérard Genette. Due to two significant problems related to Genette’s theory, Walsh dismisses the idea of fictionality as an indirect speech act, even though he acknowledgesits potential. This article’s point of departure is Genette’s definition of fiction. It points out that Genette’s concept of fiction relies on J.R. Searles idea of fiction, even though Genette operates with a different definition. The article agrees with the criticism Walsh puts forward but argues that it is possible to compensate for the problems in Genettes theory and thereby hold on to the idea offictionality as an indirect speech act. Furthermore, the article points out that considering fictionality as an indirect speech act contributes to an explanation of what distinguishes fictionality.
BIDRAG TILL EN FIKTIONOLOGISK EPISTEMOLOGI
Authors: Rossholm Göran
Published: October 2018

A CONTRIBUTION TO NARRATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY | In the wake of Roman Ingarden’s Das Literarische Kunstwerk many literary theorists have claimed that fictional worlds are “incomplete”,contrary to our real world. This idea is critically examined; the conclusion of the examination is that in most cases the incompleteness thesis is based on confusion between ontology and epistemology. However, in some cases – one example is Kafka’s The Process – the thesis is better warranted, but in these cases incompleteness may just as well be described in semantic terms as vagueness.
POESIENS FIKTIONSLABILE ”JEG” - TEORETISKE OVERVEJELSER OVER DET LYRISKE JEGS FIKTIONSSTATUS
Authors: Gammelgaard Lasse
Published: October 2018

THE FICTIVE-LABILE “I” OF POETRY | This article asks the question: what is the fictional status of the I-enunciation in a lyric poem? When people read a lyric poem in the first person, theytend to automatically assume that the poet speaks in her own voice. But is it okay to think of this as the “default setting” of lyric poetry? In this paper, two congenial essays are broached and both of them are used to enhance the other’s argument. The first essay is Susan Lanser’s “The ‘I’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology”. In this essay she dealswith homodiegetic fiction, and she tries to conjecture under which circumstances readers are likely to attach an “I” in a piece of literature to the “I” of the empirical author. She proposes five criteria which make the reader prone to infer attachment, and as she finds them almost always to be present in lyric poetry, she concludes that it is primed for authorial attachment. This article, however, finds it problematic that she presupposes that lyric poetry is a constant genre. To remedy this, Ralph Rader’sessay “The Dramatic Monologue and Related Lyric Forms” is introduced. It distinguishes between four types of lyric poems based on the affinity or distance between the poet and the speaker in the poem. Lanser’s criteria are applied to each type of lyric poem. Rader, however, needs to incorporate reflections on how narrativity affects this poet-speaker relationship. Finally, the article presents a model which visualises and fuses the two theories, concluding that the “I” in lyric poetry is fictive-labile.
LIDENSKAB FOR KROP OG SJÆL - CORNEILLES LE CID (1637) I FØLELSESHISTORISK BELYSNING
Authors: Dahl Christian
Published: October 2018

PASSION FOR BODY AND SOUL | The article engages with the history of emotions by analyzing Pierre Corneille’s pivotal play Le Cid (1637) and the ”querelle” it gendered from the point of view of 17th century affect theory. Corneille’s play has often been seen as an affirmative culmination of the aristocratic ideal of glory-seeking, but the article argues that the aristocratic ethos and its passions are circumscribed by a mechanistic understanding of human passion which focuses on the body as the locus of human passion. Similarly, discussions among the theoreticians and practitionersof early classicist drama of theatre’s obligations to educate the passions − a crucial topic in the ”querelle du Cid” − are more concerned with the regulation of mechanical passion than with the mere production of aristocratic ideology. Le Cid is therefore not just a retrograde celebration of chivalric gloire but an exploration of emergent modern forms of affective regulation.
DET MÅNGTYDIGA ALLKONSTVERKET
Authors: West Kim
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:ANDERS V. MUNCHFra Bayreuth til Bauhaus: Gesamtkunstwerk’et og de moderne kunstformerAarhus, 2012, (Aarhus Universitetsforlag),656 sider
Om forfatterne
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

About the contributors.
ANDEN VERDENSKRIG FORTALT FOR BØRN OG UNGE - HISTORIEFORTOLKNINGER I NYERE DANSK BØRNELITTERATUR
Authors: Skyggebjerg Anna Karlskov
Published: October 2018

SECOND WORLD WAR NARRATED FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNGSTERS. INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY IN NEW DANISH LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN | Children’s books about the Second World War have been written and published ever since it ended. One would perhaps imagine that the ever-increasing distance from it would mean a waning interest, but that does not seem to be the case. Over the last few years, a whole range of remarkable children’s books have appeared in Denmark. New things can still be written about this period, and the time gap can be said to have had the effect of freeing up material. This should not be taken as meaning that newer books are less reliable, historically speaking, but rather that they present the period in a new light. In this article a number of recent Danish novels will be discussed with respect to how they deal with history. It is not the intention to try to make non-fiction out of historical novels for children, which would mean reading the books in a manner which was at variance with the genre they belong to, but one of the premises of the article is that the historical novel is to be understood as a form of discourse lying somewhere between history and pure fiction. The historical novel is seen as a piece of fiction presenting one or several interpretations of a given period of history by setting its story in a particular context.
‘SLAPHEDENS’ EPOKE - ET BIDRAG TIL DEN RETROSPEKTIVE (POST-(?)/NEO-(?))MARXISTISKE KRITIK AF IDÉEN OM DET POSTMODERNE BRUD, ELLER: ALT VAR IKKE SPROGSPIL, OG HVOR VAR KAPITALEN, LYOTARD?
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

THE ERA OF RELAXATION. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE RETROSPECTIVE (POST- (?)/NEO-(?)MARXIST CRITIQUE OF THE IDEA OF A POSTMODERN BREAK, OR; EVERYTHING WAS NOT JUST LANGUAGE GAMES, AND WHERE WAS CAPITAL, LYOTARD? | Through a reading of the development of the philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard the article looks back at the critical revision of Marxism by a generation of French philosophers who were originally affiliated with Marxism themselves but ended up abandoning the Marxist analysis of the capitalist mode of production in favour of a position less critical towards capital.
SMERTENS APRIORI - OM PETER SLOTERDIJK OG HISTORIENS GENKOMST
Authors: Goldbæk Henning
Published: October 2018

THE A-PRIORI PAIN – AN ESSAY ON PETER SLOTERDIJK AND THE RETURN OF HISTORY | Sloterdijk’s claim, in Critique of Cynical Reason and in later books, that nobody knows, what it means to be modern, is related to the Hegelian tradition that still defines modern history as mythical history, and locates non-mythical history in a Utopian future. Sloterdijk’s late works, especially Spheres I-III, are an attempt to analyse the reasons, why modern individuals are still mentally living in the past and harmonic world of Plato’s ideas, Aristotle’s ethics and Plotin’s emanations, instead of accepting the fragmentarian world of modernity and globalization. And last but not least Sloterdijk’s books on Nietzsche are completely different from any other contemporary books on his philosophy. Nietzsche was the first modern thinker, who realized, that the death of God was the trauma of his time, and that it would take centuries to understand the full extent of the catastrophe, before we could even think of becoming modern. According to Sloterdijk we are still suffering from the a-priori Pain, we have only been modern for 100 years, since the First World War, and Sloterdijk’s hero is not the revolutionary, nor the left-wing student, but asceticism and the modern athlete, who lives from surpassing himself. Of course Sloterdijk is still longing for the return of history, but he keeps asking himself: The return of which history?
Den frigjorte tilskuer
Authors: Rancière Jacques
Published: October 2018

The article is a critical analysis of the idea of the need to activate the spectator considered passive and without the proper knowledge or agency. This idea runs from Diderot through Brecht and Artaud to Debord. The idea of the passivity of the spectator presupposes an idea of inequality where the passive spectator is contrasted to the active creator and the activated spectator. In the article this opposition is contrasted with an idea of the creative ability of everybody to speak and participate in the sharing of the sensible world. The idea of the passive spectator is thus replaced with an idea of a prior equality that presupposes that everybody is capable of thinking and speaking.
Situationens urbanisme
Authors: Larsen Jan Lilliendahl , Frandsen Martin Severin
Published: October 2018

This article attempts to unfold a conception of an ‘urbanism of the situation’. We show how the development of this alternative form of urbanism, which counters the reductive dominance of contemporary, disciplinary urbanism, has been underway for some decades through collaborations between avantgarde art groups, urban social movements and critical urban intellectuals. Its focus is the rediscovery of the intimate relations between bodies, society and space. The development of this peculiar urbanism is traced, firstly, in the historical avantgardes, the situationists and their collaboration with Henri Lefebvre in particular, through to contemporary ‘urbanists of the situation’, where spatial and temporal urban oeuvres are shown to be the essential aims as well as means of a political and aesthetic rediscovery of participation in the development of cities; secondly, in the recent subcultural history of Copenhagen, which shows both how relatively autonomous ‘urbanisms of the situation’ develop and how their culture and oeuvres can be co-opted by disciplinary urbanism. The article is concluded with a discussion on the necessities and possibilities of a current urbanism of the situation where we argue that for the rediscovered, vague and intimate relations between bodies, society and space to unfold into full blown productions of space, the cultural resonance of spatial and temporal urban oeuvres are crucial.
Jonas Lie mellem det maritime og det hjemlige
Authors: Frank Søren , Marcussen Marlene
Published: October 2018

The Norwegian author Jonas Lie is best known as a writer of domestic fiction depicting the Norwegian society through the perspective of marriage and the family. Through readings of Lodsen og hans hustru, Rutland and Gaa Paa!, this article challenges this view by emphasizing the maritime dimension of Lie’s work. A place-phenomenological method based on the writings of Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Robert Pogue Harrison allows for a focus on specific place relations in the novels such as the shore, the house, and the ship. Consequently, Lie’s novels establish a convergence between two opposite, yet mutually dependent movements – an “oceanization of the domestic” and a “domestication of the maritime” – as they portray compromises between ocean and land, man and woman. As a result, Lie is not only revealed to be a modern writer, more so in some ways than Ibsen, but also a writer who takes more radical (perhaps even specific Nordic) steps in the relationship between land, ocean, and the sexes than more internationally renowned authors of the sea such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad.
Tænkning i krise, opstand i tænkningen
Authors: Risager Bjarke Skærlund , Thorup Mikkel
Published: October 2018

Mikkel Bolt: Krise til opstand. Noter om det igangværende sammenbrud. Aarhus: Antipyrine, 2013, 192 sider
Demokratiet i litteraturhistorisk fokus
Authors: Svane Marie-Louise
Published: October 2018

Jakob Ladegaard: Bogen og folket – Den romantiske litteraturs politik. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2013, 224 sider
Virunga National Park - Steder og rettigheder for gorillaer og mennesker i Afrika
Authors: Andersen Frits
Published: October 2018

The article outlines some of the historical traces for the eco-crisis that presently threatens the first and most outstanding national park in Africa, homeland of the mountain gorilla. After a short description of the site, the article presents the Congo Reform Movement’s campaign against the bloody suppression in the Congo Free State around 1900, often referred to as the Red Rubber-regime. The Congo Reform Movements “Atrocity Meetings” are considered to be the first human rights campaign, because they established the rhetorical models that we find today in Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Witness. The article argues that we can detect similar and highly problematic structures in the animal rights campaigns which took on a global scale in the 1970s – initiated among others by Dian Fossey and her famous and infamous fight for the protection of mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains. Both human rights campaigns and animal rights campaigns share a responsibility, I argue, for the eco-crisis at Virunga. Finally I present the documentary Virunga from 2014 as a model and as a rhetorical alternative.
Tavshedens terror - Assia Djebar, Derrida og Algeriet
Authors: Schmidt Johanne Gormsen
Published: October 2018

Born in Algeria, but educated in the French educational system, Derrida and Djebar both write from a slippery position of in-betweenness, explicitly relating their understanding of language and culture to their problematic, French-Algerian identity.Djebar’s novel, So Vast the Prison, is driven by a desire to hear the beloved, silenced voices of her ancestors, but nevertheless radically opposes the idea of a self-sufficient Algerian identity that has been lost and needs to be salvaged. In Djebar, to track down history is rather like exposing a wound; to realize that the break with the past is unmendable. In keeping with Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other, the retrospection of So Vast never reaches behind the bilingual condition, suggesting that the colonized is always already entangled in the colonizer.Paradoxically, So Vast presents the colonizer’s silencing of the Algerian people not as the hindrance to, but as the very precondition for liberation, as traces of a Derridean, radically other language resonate from the muffled voices trapped inside the French. Gaining their strength precisely by having no voice and no place, they terrorize the official culture from within, indefatigably destabilizing those phantasms and ideologies that claim to inhabit an unsplit tongue. The Franco-Maghrebian position thus offers a welcome chance of revealing the arbitrariness of the existing law, potentially deconstructing the truth claim of any system.
Tilbage før syndefaldet? Karen Blixens ”Ringen” og et bud på en ikke helt uskyldsren kontrapunktisk litteraturpædagogik
Authors: Arndal Lars S.
Published: October 2018

Some voices in the recent field of literary theory argue that theory itself must be suspended. This is seen for instance in the case of Wendy Steiner, who characterizes the development of competing theories within the field of literature since the emergence of semiology as a ‘scientific parody’. This situation has led her to giving up ‘being a scientist’. The article argues against this retreat from theory. Rather than suspending theory, education in literature must use theories in a contrapuntal praxis of reading. This praxis is demonstrated in a reading of Karen Blixen’s short story, “The Ring”, which includes a discussion of Leif Søndergaard’s interpretations of the short story in K&K 73, 1993 . Even though Søndergaard uses a wide range of literary methods, it turns out that they all rely on a narratological structure in which the female protagonist, Lise, is transformed from innocent girl to a mature woman, who then turns her back on her newly wedded husband. Furthermore, it turns out that the readings in which Søndergaard engages rest on a symbolic reading of a few central places in the text. The article shows how Blixen’s text in itself both contradicts this narratological structure and the interpretation of symbols. On the narratological level there is not a before and after the Fall: Lise has already taken the step from girl to mature woman before the short story even begins. On the other hand, a literal reading of what at first seem to be metaphors and symbols shows that the short story itself dismantles the symbols which at first glance seem to be important. However, this insight is strongly dependent on Søndergaard’s thorough investigation of the text with the methods provided by different theories of literature. A contrapunctual reading would thus firstly follow the paths which seem to be laid out by the text, and secondly show how this interpretation of the text is in itself determined by the methodological approach.
At begribe kroppen
Authors: Christensen Ivan Lind
Published: October 2018

In the intersection between neoliberal entrepreneurship and epidemiological models of causation in late modernity the body has become one of the most prominent symbols of individual self-conduct, self-control and moral. Through the symbolic reading of the body, experts as well as laymen believe they can reach true statements about the individuals’ lifestyle, self-conduct, risk management, moral and not least self-discipline. But how did we come to a point in time where the body, health and illness became primarily the manifestation of lifestyle and individual self-conduct? In this article a few pieces of the Danish historical development towards this place in time will be outlined. The relationship between the body, culture and class has been the focal point of epidemiological research for well over 150 years. Characteristic of this production of knowledge is the formulation of shifting and often contradictory theories about the ontology of the individual and society, and the relation between these two entities. This article focuses on the development within epidemiological production of knowledge and its relations to contemporary intellectual, political and social changes, which seem to have been crucial for the way in which we now understand the body.
Det sovende subjekt
Authors: Ulrich Jacob
Published: October 2018

In this article, I consider how questions of subjectivity and self pose problems for the conception of sleep as a field of scientific study. During the twentieth century, the study of human sleep underwent significant changes and is now considered a fully fledged scientific object available for scrutiny outside of purely subjective criteria. It is nevertheless relevant to question how the expropriation of subjective sleep experiences to a medical and technological domain affects the conception of human sleep. The interplay between subjective sleep experiences and objective as well as medical depictions of sleep is inherent in the narrative framework of Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927), most prominently expressed in the narrator’s sustained effort to articulate his experience as a subject in sleep. By applying Giorgio Agamben’s conception of the expropriation of subjective experience as a pre-condition for a biopolitical critique of modern sleep science, I argue that Proust’s narrative articulates the crucial connection between language and subjectivity in the experience of sleep. I conclude by suggesting that a linguistic and literary analysis of subjective experience is a necessary pre-condition for any serious effort to grasp subjective sleep in medical and scientific terms.
Kirurgiske kærtegn
Authors: Andersen Iben Engelhardt
Published: October 2018

This article examines contemporary American medical television dramas and their intersections with 19th century literary realism asking how technical language and sentimental speech are connected in these cultural representations of illness and medical discourse. I argue that they share a common effort of medical realism: Questions of medical knowledge, diagnosis and the delimitations of the normal and the pathological not only inform the thematic content of these genres, but also mark the narrative techniques of description, characterization and imagery. Because the rational professionalism, since the founding of modern medical science, carries with it a specific truth privilege, it presents itself not only as the possibility for medical treatment, but also as an answer to our existential troubles. I consider this double authority of medical practice and social therapy a model for the medical realism at play in modern hospital dramas. They borrow the scientific authority of medicine in order to present characters who are first and foremost bodies and who are therefore potentially pathological. Furthermore they borrow the interpretive authority of medicine to develop a diagnostics, which can determine the normal and the pathological on a social scale.
Alle elsker tværfagligheden
Authors: Hansen Nils Gunder
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af David Budtz Pedersen, Frederik Stjernfelt og Simo Køppe (red.): Kampen om disci­plinerne. Viden og viden­skabe­lighed i humanistisk forskning. Hans Reitzels Forlag
’At overskue, tilfredsstille og lyksaliggjøre’
Authors: Damsholt Tine
Published: October 2018

Taking its point of departure in Foucault’s analysis of the notions of ‘reason of state’ and ‘police’ i.e. Polizeiwissenschaft in eighteenth-century Europe, the article investigates the complex understanding of happiness and bliss in a Danish parish topography from 1795. The notions of happiness and bliss are entangled with the emergence of ‘the political problem of population’ in which the population appears as an entity that must be governed according to its specific ‘nature’. Thus, the population appears as a new object of study and as purchase for interventions addressing living conditions as well as ways of acting and living. The parish topography by Nils Blicher is inscribed in this rationale that tends to increase the power of the state by making good use of its forces, to obtain the welfare of the population; to make their lives comfortable and to provide them with the things they need for their livelihood. Blicher’s description of the life and conditions of the peasantry is replete with suggested solutions to the problems described. And among the main objects to be concerned with are health and production, but also the happiness of the population. However, his understanding of happiness and bliss goes beyond the reason of the state and is completed with a Christian understanding of heavenly bliss.
Arkivets pleroma
Authors: Andreasen Torsten
Published: October 2018

In 1956, on a commission from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alain Resnais made a short film about the French national library called Toute la mémoire du monde. The film performs a vertical movement from indiscernible form and prevalent darkness upon the face of the deep in the library cellars to the summits of institutional power in its domed view of the well-ordered rows of tables and chairs in the Labrouste reading room. This vertical axis is established and maintained by the horizontal library operations that promise to transform the library objects from chaotic heap to collective happiness, or what this article has called the promised movement from plethora to pleroma. Resnais’ film intervenes in an ongoing discourse about the possibility of archival pleroma, thinking machines and the possible beneficial consequences for human existence. But the question is whether such persistent happy belief in the fall of the very last practical obstacles for pleroma does not overlook the view from Resnais’ domed shot: The view indicating that sinister fantasies of the pleroma of knowledge persist in relation to fantasies of political organisation and that the guardians of the archive will always patrol the aisles of the reading room.
Hvor vi altid kan være sammen
Authors: Nygaard Bertel
Published: October 2018

The Danish Social Democratic propaganda movie The Dream of Tomorrow was produced for the first post-war parliamentary election in Denmark in October 1945 to illustrate the project of social happiness as inscribed in the new electoral program of the party, Denmark of the Future. The vision of a future welfare state in the program was informed by new conceptions of the feasibility of relatively far-reaching social reform within capitalism, but also by concerns about the post-war strengthening of the Communist Party as a rival to the traditional hegemony of Danish Social Democracy, promp­ting the Social Democratic leadership to emphasize the radical nature of the change envisioned by the program. In the movie this specific political conjuncture of programmatic renewal and tactically determined rhetorical radicalism was translated into a synthesis of a political orientation towards immediate change and a utopian narrative of imaginary social happiness, seeking to appeal especially to young workers radicalized by the experience of occupation and resistance during the war. The overall result, however, was an uneasy balance between a political reform program and a utopian vison tied to the main ideological coordinates of the present, projected onto a future in which history seemed to have ended.
Vad var kritiken? Om aktivism, cynism och kritisk teori
Authors: Johansson Anders
Published: October 2018

The article tries to question the premises of the critical subject. Is critique, understood as a subjective judgement, still possible, or have we reached a medial and political situation where this is no longer an option? The article turns to Horkheimer and Adorno and confronts their ideal of a critical theory with the criticism directed to it from Peter Sloterdijk. Somehow the critical thinking which the Frankfurt School inaugurated seems to have taken two directions today: either a cynical, resigned one, or an activist one. The article argues that both may be understood as attempts to preserve the subject, in the same way as Adorno was accused of by Sloterdijk. In that perspective, the possibility of critique may appear to be non-existent. However, if critique is understood, with Luc Boltanski, not as an activity performed by an individual critic, but rather by an institution, by society, the situation appears in a different light. This is, the article argues, the necessary step to take: to liberate criticism from individualism, and understand the individual critic not as the origin of critique, but as its medium.
Modstand fra neden. Det Fri Universitet i København og muligheden for et kritisk (re)engagement i kunstinstitutionen
Authors: Rasmussen Kathrine Bolt
Published: October 2018

The artist run anarcho-collective Copenhagen Free University that unfolded from 2001 to 2007 in the private apartment of Henriette Heise and Jakob Jakobsen was an attempt to create a free and autonomous university for alternative and marginalized forms of knowledge outside the profit oriented, neoliberal knowledge economy. The article starts out with a presentation of Copenhagen Free University’s project and its attempt to develop a strategy of self-institutionalization fusing collective knowledge production and radical pedagogy. Hereafter follows a discussion about the similarity between Copenhagen Free University and New Institutionalism, a strategy adopted by medium-sized art institutions in an attempt to put the art institution to a progressive end. As the article points out, Copenhagen Free University could be said to have ended in a paradoxical position where it mirrored a broader development taking place within contemporary capitalism where notions like autonomy, participation, creativity, temporality and openness played a significant role in the breaking down of the barriers between work and life. The article ends by asking whether the economic crisis could result in new experimental attempts to take over the art institution, putting it to anti-capitalist purposes.
Kritik på delagtighedens betingelser. Om at være et problem
Authors: Sharma Devika
Published: October 2018

In this article, I discuss the issue of critique under conditions of complicity. Complicity and privilege might be said, in some sense, always to be conditions of possibility for critical discourse. But the complicity, I consider here, is not of this general or abstract, conceptual kind. Rather, I examine a critical genre – critique under conditions of complicity – in which the critical subject is both complicit in and privileged by the system, he or she is nevertheless attempting a critique of. I discuss three rather different examples of critique under conditions of complicity: A literary genre that I term ‘hypocrite fiction’, French anti-imperialism represented by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Critical Whiteness Studies. What these three critical positions share is, most importantly, their distaste of a global system of which they are themselves beneficiaries. Each of these three discourses thus respond in its own way to the systemic inequality and injustice caused by specific configurations of capitalism, imperialism, and racism, respectively. I argue that the experience of complicity, guilt, and hypocrisy recorded in these critical discourses are forms of moral-existential and critical thinking. I also suggest that the cultural, intellectual, public, and academic discourses that register complicity do not overall testify to the withering of critique.
Plaidoyer for den destruktive karakter
Authors: Andreasen Torsten , Day James
Published: October 2018

‘For too long the accent was placed on creativity’ says Benjamin in his essay on Karl Krauss, written at the beginning of the thirties. In this ‘plaidoyer’ we argue for a destructive critical practice precipitated by the current crisis faced by critique. Following a bare-bones account in which this crisis is traced back to the 1930s, we turn to Benjamin’s destructive character (most obviously present in his 1931 article of the same name, but to be encountered throughout his writing) to plead for a deeply negative form of critique. After the uncoupling of critique from the revolutionary organizations of the 1930s, the negativity of critical writing was subsequently lost and predominantly affirmative, post-critical positions carried the day after the defeats of 1968. This has resulted in a divorce between critical writing and possible material change, which has greatly narrowed the critical horizon, by and large anchored within the university. Rather than seeking to find new institutional supports for critique or any kind of critical apparatus, Benjamin’s destructive character points towards the clearing away of the status quo.
Infrakritik og proximering. Om at finde den rette afstand
Authors: Gad Christopher , Winthereik Brit Ross
Published: October 2018

In this paper, we compare critical practices on the Danish fishery inspection ship The West Coast to such practices at the Nordic Folk Center for Renewable Energy. These cases are the ingredients for examining the role of critique in organizational experimentation and research. Taking our point of departure in a notion of critique as finding the right proximity introduced by Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, we discuss alternatives to critique as based on a position detached from the object of critique. Our analysis shows that critique is immanent to the practices we study and already to some extent conceptualized by the practitioners. To further problematize the already ongoing critical engagements in the organizations we study, we relate our ethnographic descriptions to work done on infra critique (Verran, Willerslev). In conclusion, the relation between the notion of critique as infra-critic and scholarly critical practices is commented on. We find proximation to be a useful concept as an infra critical description of ongoing experimentation with professional identities and organizational boundaries.
En syndflod af afvæbnet kritik
Authors: Stephensen Jan Løhmann
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af Rasmus Willig: Afvæbnet kritik. Hans Reitzels Forlag, København, 2016.
Fra normativ til historisk topos-forskning
Authors: Meiner Carsten , Tygstrup Frederik
Published: October 2018

On the basis of Ernst Robert Curtius’ topology, Mikhail Bachtine’s theory of the chronotope, and Erich Auerbach’s analysis of “la cour et la ville”, this article envisions literary topology as the study of symbolic places in literary history.