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VARUMÄRKETS KORTSLUTNING? - “STOCKHOLM THE CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA”
Authors: Franzén Mats
Published: October 2018

THE SHORT-CIRCUITING OF A BRAND? - “STOCKHOLM – THE CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA”Ever since 2005 Stockholm has been promoted by a new brand: “Stockholm – the Capital of Scandinavia”. However, the question is whether a brand saying only that Stockholm is the number one city in Scandinavia really works. Before giving an answer to this question, the phenomenon of city branding is discussed in more general terms. This makes it possible to identify three ways in which the successful promotion of Stockholm might be short-circuited. First, since the use of this brand is open to anyone who wants to use it and the trademark has not been registered, any control over its use is lost (yet abuse is highly unlikely). Second, and more problematically, this brand does not resonate with the intrinsic logic of Stockholm, which means that it will not be used by the city’s own inhabitants. Third, the planned promotion of the city by the brand is directed mainly (and too instrumentally) atan international business elite, which underlines the risk of the second short-circuiting possibility as well as risking the social cohesion of the city. However problematic this new brand is, economically speaking Stockholm has prospered in recent decades – so perhaps the brand is simply unnecessary.
MØDER OG GRÆNSER – TVÆRKUNSTNERISKE PLANER FOR BYENS HAVN. EN SØNDERBORG-HISTORIE
Authors: Reeh Henrik
Published: October 2018

ENCOUNTERS AND BOUNDARIES. INTERARTISTIC PROJECTS FOR THE CITY’S HARBOUR. A SØNDERBORG STORYIn the early 2000s, The Danish Arts Foundation strengthened a burgeoning interdisciplinary tendency in urban planning when it decided to fund strategic design projects for post-industrial Danish harbour cities. The present study delves into this process, which involved a specially composed team of seven members (architects, artists, and a scholar of cultural theory [the author of the present article]), as well as administrative and political institutions in Sønderborg, a historical city of 30,000 inhabitants in Southern Jutland, not far from Germany. Referring to French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s critical demonstration of a gap separating the urban planner from the very life of the city for which his plan or design is destined, the Arts Foundation team systematically attempted to reflect upon its own points of view as well as those of the citizens and society of Sønderborg. Notably, the design team explored the itineraries of everyday life as a basis for new urban spaces, architectural structures and pedestrian infrastructures, the aim being to reuse industrial urban elements of the early 20th century – elements that could easily be appropriated by the scale and practices of contemporary urban life. “Encountering the City’s Harbour”: these words summarise the concept underlying the urban design and development strategy proposed by the Arts Foundation team. A model comprising four levels – [1] studies from afar; [2] in situ explorations of the urban fabric; [3] elaboration of a key concept; [4] dialogues with urban users – systematises the collaborative efforts made from 2002 to 2005 and provides a practical answer to the structural challenge outlined by Certeau.
“THIS IS THE TIME. AND THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE TIME”
Authors: Johansen Maria
Published: October 2018

THIS IS THE TIME. AND THIS IS THE RECORD OF TIMEToday’s extensive use of databases for storing identifying biometric and genetic information raises several questions on the relations between bodies, tech nology, information, power, human rights and personal integrity. While an individualistic understanding of the human being is inadequate as a way of approaching this complex of problems, we are also confronted with the challenge not to dissolve the subject, thus overlooking the fragility of our condition and the ways in which our bodies are being encroached. The present article attempts to meet this double challenge.Starting with the short story Fantomina: or Love in a Maze, written by Eliza Haywood during the early 18th century, and with a discussion on some relations between fiction, power and surveillance, the article investigates contemporary ways in which bodies are being inscribed in laws and captured in the trap of scription when used as proofs of identity. The article analyzes questions of identification in their historical complexity, as well as the patterns that are played out by powers of recording, operating with some continuity over the past centuries.It is also suggested that so-called bodily freedoms and rights, as well as integrity, could gain in critical significance by considering the “betweenness” – the inter-est of Hannah Arendt – and the ways in which our existence presupposes the other (understood as both the world and the others conditioning us). Opposing the individualistic tradition, the law understood as a boundary does not, thus, enclose independent individuals in sovereign possession of themselves beyond time and space; instead, the boundary gains its significance in relation to an opaque who in continuous becoming.
OVERVÅGNINGSNARRATIONER - OVERVÅGNING SOM FIGUR OG FORMGREB I SAMTIDSROMANEN
Authors: Veel Kristin
Published: October 2018

SURVEILLANCENARRATIONS. SURVEILLANCE AS SUBJECT AND FORM IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVELWithin recent years surveillance has simultaneously become a pervasive topic of public debate, a growing academic field in its own right and an increasingly popular theme in the arts and popular culture. This article argues that there are significant insights to be gained on the impact of surveillance on our cultural imagination from looking at the ways in which contemporary fiction employs surveillance as a literary trope. By exploring the ways in which surveillance is portrayed in three recent novels, Ulrich Peltzer’s Teil der Lösung (2007), Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost (2007) and Tim Lott’s The Seymour Tapes (2005), respectively it is shown how surveillance is used not only as a central theme, but also as a vehicle for literary reflections on modes of representation.The point of departure is the identification of information overload as a shared challenge for narrative fiction and surveillance tech niques. The amount of information we encounter daily has increased dramatically over the last couple of decades, not least due to tech nological developments that have led to significant changes in the ability to store, access and communicate information. This is a challenge with which both contemporary fiction and surveillance tech niques seem forced to deal: narrative fiction has to negotiate the increasing amount of information available in everyday life if it is to reflect on the conditions of human life in the contemporary 21st century. Likewise, surveillance today is to a large degree about distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information – gigabytes and gigabytes of data or CCTV footage are of little use if we do not know what to look for. Surveillance thus problematises some of the key issues that contemporary fiction faces in relation to representation. This explains why looking at novels which directly occupy themselves with surveillance provides an inroad to understanding the contemporary, representational challenges of modern fiction and of life in a surveillance society.The main aim of the article is thus to point to the implications of contemporary surveillance tech nology on a cultural and aesthetic level, which can be likened to the ways in which the shock aesthetics and montage tech nique of the early 20th century are coupled with the experience of the modern city. In this way, we can begin to understand further the impact of the increasing integration of surveillance in our everyday lives on our way of experiencing, understanding and representing the world.
PÅ TYSKE PRÆMISSER, MEN MED GLOBALT PERSPEKTIV - OVERVÅGNING I NYERE TYSK LITTERATUR
Authors: Povlsen Steen Klitgård
Published: October 2018

SURVEILLANCE AND SPYING IN NEW GERMAN LITERATURESurveillance is a remarkably prominent issue in the actual political debate in Germany. It is undoubtedly connected with past experiences. Both the Nazi-regime and the communist dictatorship in East Germany from 1945‑1989 developed sophisticated systems for controlling citizens, thus the modern sensibility in Germany toward surveillance is explicitly a reaction against those regimes. “Never more a GDR” is a slogan that is often seen in newspapers and Internet sites.It is surprising however that this topic has had a relatively insignificant position in new German literature since the fall of the wall. In the late eighties and early nineties surveillance and spying was treated with humour and forbearance: there was something comical about the spy-game; the spies were often poor guys and it was the general conviction that the system would disappear with the reunion.All this has changed after September 11th and the fight against terrorism which it activated. The opening up of the Stasi archives has also drawn new attention and sensibility to the issue. Two examples of this new tone are presented: Susanne Schädlich writes about her uncle spying on her father Hans-Joachim Schädlich – also after his emigration to Western Germany. It is a story about a family fission and of how to continue one’s life with the treachery of a once beloved person. Juli Zeh uses her education and training as a jurist to scrutinize the total system of surveillance in a society still claiming to be democratic. She does so in a collection of essays (with Ilija Trojanow) and in her best seller novels, latest Corpus delicti with the Kafka-sounding subtitle “a process”. Juli Zeh is the most prominent example of the tendency in new German literature to take up the tradition from the GDR-literature with its ethical obligation and fight against the totalitarian state. She is an example of the tendency to activate this special German tradition under new political circumstances – and new global perspectives.
Anmeldelse: VERDENSLITTERATUR SET FRA HELIKOPTERHØJDE
Authors: Svane Marie-Louise
Published: October 2018

ANMELDELSE AFSvend Erik Larsen: Tekster uden grænser. Litteratur og globalisering, Århus, 2007 (Aarhus Universitetsforlag)
Anmeldelse: DEN KVINDELIGE DANNELSESROMAN
Authors: Møller Lis
Published: October 2018

ANMELDELSE AFLise Busk-Jensen, Romantikkens forfatterinder. 3 bind, København 2009 (Gyldendal) 1856 sider. Illustreret.
Det perverse artefakt. Konflikt og erindringer i spanske tegneserier
Authors: Magnussen Anne
Published: October 2018

THE PERVERSE ARTIFACT. CONFLICT AND MEMOIRS IN SPANISH CARTOON SERIESWithin the last 10 to 15 years, the Spanish debate about historical memory has gained much force, with a specific focus on memories of the Civil War (1936-39) and of the succeeding dictatorship that ended with a process of democratization at the end of the 1970s. Although the big Spanish political parties disagree on several memory related issues, they agree that the main objective is to secure a reconciliation of the Spanish population that – at least according to some parties, organisations and analysts – is still divided by the memories of the Civil War and the repressive Francoist dictatorship. Spanish comics from the end of the 1990s and the 2000s question the common and coherent narrative of the War and the dictatorship that is implied in this idea of reconciliation. This article offers an example of the ways in which the comics do this by activating two interconnected strategies. First, the comics destabilize place and narrative structure, andsecondly, they suggest that madness and a perverted gaze are the only sensible perspectives from which to contemplate Spain’s repressive and violent past. The analysis draws on the context of both the memory debate and the development within the Spanish and international comics field.
Anmeldelse: DET TRAGISKE KOMMER
Authors: Andersen Claus Esmann
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:CHRISTIAN DAHLTragedie og bystatOm fællesskab og konflikt i Athens dramatiske kulturKøbenhavn, 2010 (Museum TusculanumsForlag, ph.d.-afhandling). 343 sider.ANNE BIRGITTE RICHARDDen urimelige kunstOm tragediens former og de tragiske følelserKøbenhavn, 2010 (Roskilde Universitetsforlag).200 sider.
Anmeldelse: DEKONSTRUKTION SOM VIDUNDERMIDDEL
Authors: Schramm Moritz
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:MIKKEL BOLT & JACOB LUND (RED.)FællesskabsfølelserKunst, politik, filosofi, Århus, 2009(Klim). 238 sider.
Anmeldelse: TINGENES UNDTAGELSESTILSTAND
Authors: Andreasen Torsten
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:GIORGIO AGAMBENUndtagelsestilstandoversat af Ole JornÅrhus, 2009 (Philosophia). 163 sider.
Usandsynligheder, overkrydsninger og umuligheder. En retorisk tilgang til brud på den mimetiske karakternarrations kode
Authors: Phelan James
Published: October 2018

IMPROBABILITIES, CROSSOVERS, AND IMPOSSIBILITIES | Extending and to some extent revising some of his earlier work, James Phelan in this essay examines three kinds of “unnatural”departures from the mimetic code. Paralepsis (or implausible knowledgeable narration), simultaneous present-tense character narration, and a kind of departure not previously noticed, which he calls cross over narration: “an author links the narration of two independent sets of events by transferring the effects of the narration of the one to the other.” In spite of being rather different ways of breaching the mimetic code, the three breaks form a useful cluster for investigating underlying conventions of reading that can explain why readers often do not notice the breakes. Phelan thus induces two Meta-Rules of Readerly Engagement: The Value Added Meta-Rule underlies the principle that disclosurefunctions trump narrator functions, and stipulates that readers overlook breaks in the mimetic code when those breaks enhance their reading experience; the Story over Discourse Meta-Rule stipulates that once a narrative foregrounds its mimetic component, readers will privilege story elements over discourseelements, and thus be inclined to overlook breaks in the code. Four additional Rules are derived from the Meta-Rules in a reading of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which serves as an example ofimplausibly knowledgeable narration. Rules and Meta-Rules are then deployed in reading a passage of The Great Gatsby, exemplifying crossover narration. A discussion with Henrik Skov Nielsen about the simultaneous present-tense narration in Glamorama marks both the closeness and a certain differencein perspective between rhetorical narratology and Nielsen’s concept of narration without narrators.
Det unaturlige i fortællende poesi. To radikale eksempler
Authors: McHale Brian
Published: October 2018

THE UNNATURALNESS OF NARRATIVE POETRY | New cognitive theory (e.g. Monica Fludernik) argues that we naturalize texts by narrativizing them. Although there are no ultimately “unnatural” narratives on this account, this article argues that there are certainly artificial ones. The article focuses especially on narrative poetry in which the artificial order of poetry spaces languageand denaturalizes it. It is the underlying hypothesis that artifice changes everything, narrative included. And the article shows this in a contrastive reading of two very different narrative poems:Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis that exploits the possibility of artificial segmentation, heightened diction and extravagant figuration and Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse in which narration dominates, artifice is minimal, reduced to little more that lineation, stanza-breaks and sporadic end-rhymes. The point is that even in the case of Les Murray’s very narrative poetry, the artificial segmentation sets up counter-rhythms that syncopate and counterpoint narrative shifts.
Om forfatterne
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

list of contributors.
Fra "en rigtig pige" til "en gravid mand" - Transpersoner og reproduktion: Den sidste grænse?
Authors: Heede Dag
Published: October 2018

From "A Real Girl" to "A Pregnant Man" | This article counterposes memoirs of a Danish transwoman, Lili Elbe, from the beginning of last century and an American transman, Thomas Beatie, from 2008. Elbe (1882-1931) changed sex in 1930 and hoped to complete her transition by becoming pregnant. A year later, however, she died. Beatie changed sex but wanted a child with his infertile female partner. He decided to stop his hormone treatments, get artificial insemination and carry a child, becoming the world's first "pregnant man". The two cases are documented in memoirs that both display longings for essence and purity and a fear of monstrosity and contamination. This essay discusses how genre and transsexuality work together to produce new notions of reproduction and naturalness.
Sådan fortæller man, at man får et barn. Diskursive onlinekonstruktioner
Authors: Grønning Anette
Published: October 2018

HOW TO TELL THAT YOU ARE PREGNANT | The focus of this article is mediated exposure of life before life based on fetal images, including textual updates uploaded to individual Facebook profiles. The article analyses how pictures of embryos have become part of daily digital self presentation and the narrative about expecting a child. We follow a pregnant’s Facebook profile from the moment she uploads the first fetal image around the twelfth week, till the moment she updates with the news about the delivery documented by a picture of her newborn baby. The mediated exposure also involves the coming father, as the pregnant woman tags the pictures with his name to underline the family ties. Many relations (mostly women) contribute with comments that can be categorised into three groups: serious, humoristic-ironic and analysing questioning. The Facebook update can be seen as a side stage or middle region (Meyrowitz) position, a constantly more muddy space between public and private self presentation. This new praxis confirms Jean Baudrillard’s thoughts about the subject’s exaggerated presentation of self. The online audience is more comprehensive and less controllable than offline. The pregnant exposes her pregnancy, motherhood and her product (the foetus)through updates, pictures and tagging. The Facebook update is a new way to interpellate family relations and to celebrate the coming new member with the comprehensive network in three levels.
(U)levelige slægtskaber. En analyse af filmen "Rosa Morena"
Authors: Myong Lene , Petersen Michael Nebeling
Published: October 2018

UN/LIVEABLE KINSHIP. READING ROSA MORENA | The Danish movie Rosa Morena (2010) tells an unusual story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a poor black Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is cast as heteronormative and white in order to gain cultural intelligibility as a parent and thus to become the bearer of a liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the Brazilian birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuited parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect, where anger turns into gratefulness fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearerof an unliveable kinship. This economy of life and death constructs transnational adoption as a vital event in a Foucauldian sense. The adoption, simultaneously, folds a white male homosexual population into life and targets a racialized and poor population as always already dead.
Kommentar: NÅR LITTERATER DIAGNOSTICERER
Authors: Rasmussen René
Published: October 2018

Kommentar til BENJAMIN JON BOYSEN “Når psykiateren har brug for en psykiater”K&K – Kultur og Klasse, nr. 111, 2011
Om forfatterne
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

About the contributors
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Forord til K&K 114 - UtopiRedigeret af Mikkel Birk Jespersen, Stefan Jonsson, Jakob Ladegaard og Bertel NygaardMed bidrag af Fredric Jameson, Carin Franzén, Mikkel Birk Jespersen, Bertel Nygaard, Stefan Jonsson, Jakob Ladegaard, Camilla Jalving, Marie Laurberg, Miguel Abensour og Tarja-Liisa Hypén
Utopiens politik
Authors: Jameson Fredric
Published: October 2018

THE POLITICS OF UTOPIA | The article discusses the continued relevance of utopia in the 21st century as well as the general problems that arise from utopia as a literary and political phenomenon. UtopiaH– both as psychological “wishfulfilment” and as social constructionH– is involved in a contradictory relationship with the political. Utopia presupposes a “suspension” of politics,and hence utopias flourish in periods of social turmoil, but without political agency or direction. The function of utopia is first and foremost negative, in the sense that utopia does not offer a representation of a better future, but rather shows us that we are unable to imagine such a future because of the ideological closure of the system. Therefore, it will be impossible to develop an effective and critical political practice for the age of globalization without the resurrection of utopia.
Tilbage til kosmos. Den sovjetiske rumfartsmytologi i litteratur, film og kunst efter kommunismens fald
Authors: Ladegaard Jakob
Published: October 2018

BACK TO KOSMOS | In the decades following World War II, the utopia of a future communist state in the Soviet Union became linked to the tech nological conquest of cosmos through space travel. This relation found a primary expression in the heroic myths created in the popular visual culture surrounding the Soviet space program. After the collapse of the Soviet regime, the aesthetics and politics of its space ideology have been subjected to critical evaluation as part of a wider struggle over the legacy of the communist era. This article discusses three recent art works dealing with this issue: Victor Pelevin’s novel Omon Ra (1992), Adam Bartos’ photo book Kosmos – A Portrait of the Russian Space Age (2001) and Aleksei Fedorchenko’s film First on the Moon (2005). The article argues that the three works illustrate a development in the relation to the space myth from critical denunciation and even ridicule to ambivalent nostalgia. It is further suggested that this development is symptomatic for a wider change in the attitude towards utopic projects, which is not only expressed in the changing assessment of the legacy of the SovietUnion in Russia, but also in the aesthetic and political imaginary in our post-political era.
OMKRING HALVSTATENS FØDSEL
Authors: Juhl Carsten
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af HANS VAMMEN: Den tomme stat – Angst og ansvari dansk politik 1848-1864København, 2011, med register, tidstavle og illustrationer (Museum Tusculanums Forlag), 388 s.
PÅ ØLEJR MED SAMTIDSKUNSTEN
Authors: Philipsen Lotte
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af CHRISTIAN GETHER, STINE HØHOLT, MARIE LAURBERG (RED.): Utopia & Contemporary ArtOstfildern, 2012, (ARKEN Museum of Modern Art & Hatje Cantz Verlag), 176 s.
DEN NARRATIVE FIKTIONALITETS PRAGMATIK
Authors: Walsh Richard
Published: October 2018

THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVE FICTIONALITY | “The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality” is chapter 1 of Richard Walsh’ book The Rhetoric of Fictionality. Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2007.
SELVFED GENRESAMPLING ELLER REFLEKSIV SAMTIDSLITTERATUR? - FIKTIONALISERING AF SELV OG SAMTID I WEIHUIS SHANGHAI BABY
Authors: Munk Anne Myrup
Published: October 2018

SELF-SATISFIED GENRE-SAMPLING OR REFLECTIVE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | This article applies the concept of ‘fictionality’ to Chinese Weihui’s self-fashioning in relation to her international bestseller Shanghai Baby (1999). Shanghai Baby is a novel that plays on the author’s own biography yet at the same time many parts of the narrative are clearly fictionalized. The article argues that Weihui’s self-fashioning in the novel and in the media is part of an international tendency in contemporary literature, a tendency towards using fictionality as a means to reinstall literature and the book as a medium in the global media ontology. Fictionality is here understood not as generic, but as a rhetoric strategy that can be deployed in any kind of communication as an intentional mediation of reality. Shanghai Baby is in many ways a popular multimedia phenomenon that instantly made Weihui a celebrity and spawned a number of internet-based rip offs. But it is also an example of how to understand fictionality in contemporary culture in the context of a highly hybrid, mediatized and globalized age.
NARRATION, VETANDE OCH KOMMUNIKATION - ICKE-MIMETISKA DRAG I FÖRSTAPERSONSBERÄTTANDE
Authors: Hatavara Mari
Published: October 2018

NARRATION, DISCLOSURE AND COMMUNICATION. NON-MIMETIC FEATURES IN FIRST PERSON FICTIONAL NARRATIVE | This article studies the multi-layered narrative structure distinctive to fiction. The emphasis is on the discoursive and epistemological privilegesthat are associated with third person narration, but which are also manifested in the first person narratives studied in the article. The article analyzes two historical novels, Suomen historia (1998) byJuha Seppälä, and Kallorumpu (2011) by Eeva-Kaarina Aronen. Both have first person narrators: the largest part of Suomen historia is written like an autobiography, whereas in Kallorumpu the narrator tells about himself, showing and commenting on a film – also featuring himself – to a live audience. Both novels defy the definition of narrative as communication with symmetrical sender–receiver pairs. The very act of telling is unclear in terms of temporal and spatial positioning, and so is the amount and order of narrative levels. The narrators and narrative situations are protean, with tenses, deictic markers and other linguistic and contextual cues oscillating between the narrator’s and the character’s discourse and between narrative audiences. I argue there is a need to revise definitions and terminology to explain non-mimetic, unnatural phenomena in first person fictional narration. I propose the overall concept to be called narratorial functions, and that we divide these into communicative anddisclosure functions, the first ones abiding to the rules of communication, the latter defining them.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES – HUMANIORAS FREMTID?
Authors: Porsdam Helle , Rendix Mia
Published: October 2018

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES | The article deals with a widespread global phenomen within the Humanities, i.e. Digital Humanities. In the wake of the spreadof the Internet with opportunities for sharing knowledge, open access, and the World Wide Web as a democratic agency, the Humanities faculties are in the process of adapting themselves to exploiting digital challenges and potentials. Much has been written on digitalization’s ideological and tech nological aspects and consequences, but researchers from the Humanities first began over the past five to seven years to devise ways in which new Digital Humanities should be formed. Special centers for Digital Humanities already exist at leading American and British universities, and several specific manifests on the digitalization of the Humanities have been written. The authors of this article wish to discuss and problematize the Digital Humanities in both an international and national context, and the consequences of Digital Humanities that we see for the actual role of research and the potential for acknowledgement.
ARTIFICIEL AUTENTICITET
Authors: Andersen Jørn Erslev
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:JØRGEN DEHSDet autentiske. Fortællinger om nutidens kunstbegrebKøbenhavn, 2012, (Forlaget Vandkunsten), 216 s.
INTERAKTIVITET OG HISTORIEBEVIDSTHED - DEN DIGITALE HISTORIEFORMIDLINGS DIDAKTISKE POTENTIALER
Authors: Peters Rikke Alberg
Published: October 2018

INTERACTIVITY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS. THE DIDACTIC POTENTIALS OF DIGITAL HISTORY RESOURCES | This article examines the interactive and participatory potentials of digital web resources such as the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Danish history web pages www.danmarkshistorien.dk and www.kulturhistorier.dk, which are both designed as didactic tools for grammar and high school teaching. I argue that digital web resources can be used to engage students and users in authentic collaborative learning activities and facilitate an interactive engagement with the past. Our sense of the past has – at least since Gutenberg – been dependent on mediated symbolic forms: Books, Radio, TV, Newspapers and, recently, the Internet. The question is if different media shape our appropriation of history in different ways. My argument is that new digital Internet based history platforms can play an important role in sharpening our sense of historical consciousness since they require an active and creative contribution from the interpreter when creating a historical narrative. An interactive engagement with the past facilitated through digital and online resources focuses on history as a lived experience. It is linked to an increased awareness of historicity and identity and thereby challenges traditional historiographical views of history as a reconstruction of the past.
ARKIVER OG BARRIKADER - DIGITALISERINGEN AF DR’S RADIOARKIVER I KULTURHISTORISK PERSPEKTIV. RYDNINGEN AF BYGGEREN (1980) SOM EKSEMPEL
Authors: Jensen Erik Granly
Published: October 2018

ARCHIVES AND BARRICADES | The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) has begun the digitisation of its audio-visual archives. This transformation from analogue to digital archives raises a number of questions regarding the archive-specific character, history and content of the broadcast material. Furthermore, the digitisation process renders visible a number of problems. This includes possible access for researchers, general availability of the content and permission to present archival material in the public domain; problems all related to intellectual property rights. The article will present the historical broadcast archive from a cultural historical and media policy perspective, suggesting that the cultural heritage of state-owned audio-visual archives remains a contested area due not only to the exis-ting copyright laws but to aspects of historical contextualisation as well. The article presents this perspective through a case study consisting of 48 radio programmes all related to the clearing of the children’s playground Byggeren in Copenhagen in May 1980. The case study underlines the complicated institutional and cultural political implications in which the historic audio-visual source material is situated.
SUBJEKTIVE VIDNER - FOTOGRAFIER SOM DOKUMENTATION AF HISTORIEN
Authors: Ejstrud Jannie Uhre
Published: October 2018

SUBJECTIVE WITNESSES: PHOTOGRAPHS AS DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORY | Methodological approaches to photographic source material have been lacking in historical research for a long time. In order to use photographs as historical source material, we need to take into account the specific abilities and limitations of the medium. In traditional methodological historical literature, photographs are treated uncritically and often serve merely as illustrations. In a few exceptions, they are treated as works of art, with references to the analytical methods from reception based picture analysis from art history, with the interpreting subject as focal point. New research that deals with photographs needs to deal with the source material more critically and use the meta sources available to verify and document the material. Also, it needs to take into account the specific contexts of the photographs as well as the general history and development of photography – culturally and technically – to add extra layers of information to the photographic documents. It is of particular importance in our mass producing, digital photo culture, as otherwise, traditional historians stand methodologically crippled before a lot of source material.
AT VENDE TILBAGE TIL UKENDTE STEDER - POSTHUKOMMELSE OG STED HOS JACOB DAMMAS, JACOB KOFLER OG MAJA MAGDALENA SWIDERSKA
Authors: Mrozewicz Anna Estera
Published: October 2018

RETURNING TO UNFAMILIAR PLACES. PLACE AND POSTMEMORY IN THE WORKS OF JACOB DAMMAS, JACOB KOFLER, AND MAJA MAGDALENA SWI-DERSKA | The emigration of three thousand Polish-Jewish citizens to Denmark as a result of the events in March 1968 in Poland has only recently attracted attention from filmmakers and writers in Denmark. Two documentary films and a novel, created within a relatively short period of time, deal with the topic: Jacob Kofler’s Statsløs (Stateless), 2004, Jacob Dammas’ Kredens (Dresser), 2007, and Maja Magdalena Swiderska’s The Border Breaking Bunch, 2008. The authors are all children of refugees and represent second generation in relation to the cultural trauma of exile. The article examines aesthetic approaches developed by the authors as they (re)tell personal stories, which are mediated through various strategies of postmemory (Hirsch 1997). Postmemory is distinguished from memory by a non-indexical relation to the past and a generational distance, and from history by a highly personal approach. However, it is not addressed here as a psychological category. On the contrary, I argue that postmemory can be viewed as both an analytical and a narrative and aesthetic tool. Questions of place and place-related identity are relevant and inseparable from the three authors’ creative reimaginings of the cultural and personal trauma. Thus, the article focuses on the concepts of place and postmemory, and their interdependencies in the analysed works. Close readings are combined with theoretical reflection, which allows the objects and theories to illuminate each other.
DEN KOSMOPOLITISKE HUMANISME OG RACISMEN - CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS SOM EKSEMPEL
Authors: Kjærgaard Anna Kaae
Published: October 2018

COSMOPOLITAN HUMANISM AND RACISM. CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS AN EXAMPLE | In this article I discuss how cosmopolitan humanism, understood as the celebration and protection of cultural diversity which emerged in the field of the humanities, social sciences and politics after World War II, is related to modern racism. The point of departure of the discussion is an analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ descriptions of his travels in the former British India in the 1950’s in his famous travelogue Tristes tropiques (1955). On the one hand Lévi-Strauss is considered a central figure in the fight against racism in the wake of World War II. He has written several widely influential texts in which he deconstructs old evolutionist myths and substitutes the notion of different races with the notion of different cultures. In addition, he has argued forcefully for the equality of all cultures and the benefits of intercultural exchange. But on the other hand he has also advocated cultural segregation. An example of this is his description of the Indian caste system not as a racist institution but as an ideal attempt to avoid racial conflicts by separating the different ethnic groups altogether. In my article I argue that this contradiction is not just due to an inconsistency in Lévi-Strauss’ texts but rather the result of an inherent ambivalence in cosmopolitan humanism as such and in the cultural relativism on which it is based.
OM FORFATTERNE
Authors: Bøggild Jacob , Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2018

En kort beskrivelse af tidsskriftets forfattere.
Deltagelsens kunst?
Authors: Schwarzbart Judith , Samson Kristine
Published: October 2018

Within recent years, art and urbanism have gradually moved closer to each other and come together around socially engaged, dialogical projects. Participation and the creation of urban publics are topics that often concern artists as well as urban planners and activists. Based on a record of this recent conjunction between art and urbanism, the article examines practices, fractures, and conflicts in the aftermath of the social turn. With a point of departure in the coalescing public programme of the Istanbul Biennial and Occupy Gezi at Taksim Square in 2013, the article questions the art of participation. What type of public is created in the participative art? And is an artistic social turn towards the city even possible beyond the art institution? The article concludes that precisely in the conflict between the two different rationales of art and urbanism a participatory, urban public can emerge; a public, however, which lie beyond the intention and rationales of the individual actor.
Publikumsudvikling – strategier for inddragelse eller institutionel udvikling?
Authors: Lindelof Anja Mølle
Published: October 2018

The term ‘audience development’ is currently employed in cultural policy and within art institutions in order to address questions concerning cultural participation. It centers on two parallel discussions: On the one hand it addresses participation as a democratic ideal, and on the other hand it frames specific forms of audience engagement and the inherent and diverging understandings of participation.  This article shows how the discourse developed about audience development reduces the discussion to either legitimizing existing cultural policy practice or to strategies for arts marketing, and it suggests that other important perspectives from e.g. performance studies are overlooked in the discussion of art institutions and their current dilemmas. The article presents a model that sums up four parallel discussions unfolding about audience development: cultural practices, aesthetic strategies for interaction, post performance reflections and everyday life. It is argued that all of these four perspectives need to be addressed for audience development to sincerely challenge the prevailing understanding of art institutions and their current dilemmas.
Deltagelsens æstetik – om at tale, lytte og adlyde
Authors: Breinbjerg Morten , Fritsch Jonas
Published: October 2018

In this article we discuss aesthetics of participation as a sensory, affective and reflective engagement with the world and the historical, physical, material, political and cultural relations that form our world. We develop a theoretical understanding building on the work of Michel Serres and Jacques Rancière to unfold participation as continuous fluctuations between individual/collective, signal/noise, order/chaos in a distribution of the sensible, following a politics of aesthetics. Through the analysis of two auditory, interactive installations – BUG and Ekkomaten – we show how the aesthetics of participation arises from- and modulates complex communicative and affective relations between individuals, collectives and places. Through their crafting and design, both BUG and Ekkomaten effect a transformation of the distributions of the sensible through digital sonifications, giving its users the possibility to redefine their relational engagement with issues of surveillance in the former DDR (BUG) and the community of the residential area Møllevangen in Aarhus, Denmark (Ekkomaten). Following this, we discuss how future (participatory) design projects can benefit from cultivating an aesthetics participation where aesthetics describes the relation between forms of experience, the distribution of the sensible and the potential for participation.
Deltageren som museumsaktivist
Authors: Thobo-Carlsen Mette
Published: October 2018

Since the 1960s, a ’theatricalization’ of contemporary art and culture has questioned the modernist ideal of the autonomy of art, highlighting instead the performativity and sociality of art as event. The performative and theatrical viewer-involving tendency in art has redefined the relations between art, context and viewer and inspired many museums to rethink the political rationality implied in their social role as authoritative producers of knowledge and their educative and civilizing functions. The museum - once considered an isolated and privileged public space reserved for a small section of citizens - is today developing new museum policies and strategies based on performative and participatory forms of knowledge production, thus aiming to play a more active and perhaps critical role in constituting new social relations and mobilizing new collectivities and communities. In this context, the present article wishes to suggest a performative reading of the art exhibition The Model: Palle Nielsen from 2014 at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, in order to understand the various performative modes of participation which the art installation makes possible. The article explores what makes the artwork political, how it achieves and performs political agency and to what effect, thus aiming to redefine the political in art not in terms of content but as unforeseeable effects of the performativity of the aesthetic form.
Hvordan ved litteratur?
Authors: Jørgensen Jens Lohfert
Published: October 2018

Taking its point of departure in an example from Jens Peter Jacobsen’s novel Niels Lyhne (1880), where Jacobsen apparently describes the way in which tuberculosis is transmitted two years before it was demonstrated by the German physician Robert Koch, this article discusses which different knowledge positions, literary works can take. Arguing that this is a question of fundamental importance to our understanding of the work’s relationship to the surrounding world as well as of the work in itself, three responses are proposed. Firstly, one can perceive of the literary work as appropriating knowledge, which corresponds to a perception of it as an archive. This implies a retrospective analytical focus on the pre-requisites of literature to articulate knowledge. Secondly, one can perceive of the work as circulating knowledge, which corresponds to a perception of it as a medium. This response implies a synchronous analytical focus on the way in which the knowledge articulated by the work is embedded in contemporary thought collectives. Thirdly, one can perceive of the work as generating knowledge, which corresponds to an understanding of it as a speech act. This implies a prospective analysis on the very way in which the work articulates know-ledge. In this respect, literary works differ from medical works in at least three ways: it articulates knowledge in a casual manner, it articulates knowledge in the present tense, and it articulates knowledge in the form of an event that takes place to the readers.
Om forfatterne
Authors: Kultur & Klasse Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Om forfatterne
Farvebilleder fra det mørke Afrika - Race, krop, økonomi og politik i Mahamet-Saleh Harouns Grigris
Authors: Baggesgaard Mads Anders
Published: October 2018

Analyzing Tchadian director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 film Grigris the article discusses the political potentials of contemporary Sub-Saharan Film. The article rejects frameworks of African and Francophone cinema and argues that a localized understanding of this film in Chad provides a better understanding of the universal and global reach of the engagement with politics that is one of the film’s prime objectives. It is through an understanding of the local and regional society and history that it becomes evident how the film engages with political issues with reach far beyond the borders of Chad. This engagement is performed through the screening of bodies, of race highlighting the role that these entities play in Chadian society and Chadian politics.
Sygdom på sociale medier
Authors: Stage Carsten
Published: October 2018

The article investigates how new forms of illness communication online are challenging the famous ’sick role’ described by Talcott Parsons in favour of more activist, participatory and entrepreneurial illness voices. The article more specifically makes a case study of online platforms made by the English blogger Stephen Sutton and it discusses his extremely positive and spirited way of handling a life threatening cancer disease, which resulted in the crowdfunding of almost five million GBP for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The concepts of ’biological citizenship’ from Nikolas Rose and ’affective labor’ from Michael Hardt are used to establish an analytical framework able to grasp the dilemmas related to the case and to the rising tendency of intertwining intimate pathographies with social, economical or political projects. These concepts are chosen because they allow the researcher to affirm the positive discursive, affective and economical consequences of Sutton’s work, while also reflecting on the way the maintenance of vitality, happiness and hope, as key components of contemporary biopolitics, are possibly affecting and transforming current illness practices.
Depression og/eller apokalypse
Authors: Bjering Jens , Frantzen Mikkel Krause
Published: October 2018

The article sets out by investigating how depression is represented in Lars von Trier’s disaster movie Melancholia with the specific intent to detach mental illness from classic, somewhat romantic notions of metaphoric and epistemological connections between psychopathology and deeper “truths” about the world. Employing what one could call a symptomatological view on the depression of the main protagonist Justine, the article concludes that her depression should be seen as a temporal disorder in the sense that she lacks the ability to project and plan a future. From here, the article turns to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of a “reparative praxis” as a possible ethico-practical way out of the depressive situation, arguing that such a reparative praxis is exactly what ends up pulling Justine out of her depression and enabling her to act. In a concluding step, the article relates depression and the reparative praxis to more general questions about temporality, imagination, and disaster based on Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of “loop time”.
Retorik og lykke
Authors: Madsen Carsten
Published: October 2018

This article maps out the function of and interrelationship between the rhetorical and the ethical uses of happiness (eudaimonia) in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics and within the framework of the democratic polis in Greek antiquity. Deliberations about happiness are claimed to interdependently organize Greek rhetoric and structure the moral character (ethos) of people. Through an analysis of Pericles’ eulogy it is demonstrated how epideictic oratory can function as an argumentative deliberation that simultaneously advances happiness as a political and a personal goal. It is further proposed that the interrelationship between rhetoric and ethics makes it possible to critically test any rhetorical statement in terms of happiness. Finally, with reference to Alisdair MacIntyre, it is briefly suggested that central arguments of contemporary virtue ethics could be strengthened by taking rhetorical deliberation about happiness into account, just as rhetorical theories about ethos could benefit from the insights of contemporary eudaimonism.
Seksualitetens uddrivelse
Authors: Hansen Nils Gunder
Published: October 2018

The article investigates a historical development in the concepts of happiness and love and the norms of sexual behavior from a rural community over the upcoming welfare society in the suburbs to the late modern period in the big city. The changes are observed through three Danish literary texts from 1960, 1965 and 2011, first the novel I heltespor (“In the footsteps of heroes”) by Erik Aalbæk Jensen, then the short story Julestue (“The Christmas Gathering”) by Anders Bodelsen and finally the novel Se på mig (“Look at me”) by Kirsten Hammann. In the rural community happiness is knowing your right place and mastering the challenges of seduction and sexual temptation without the complete surrender to an inauthentic life of pure conventionalism. In the suburbs and early welfare society controlled infidelity with the exchange of partners represents a promise of happiness, something “more” and meaningful transcending the pure material satisfaction of the new and well managed consumer society. In the late modern period the importance of sexuality and love is downgraded in a remarkable manner: The search for happiness is extremely individualized and conceived as a kind of portal you have to enter at the precise right moment of your life trajectory. Sexuality and love seem to have lost their transcendent and integrational power in the game of happiness.
Migration/immigration/emigration
Authors: Andersson Axel
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af Sten Pultz Moslund, Anne Ringe Petersen & Moritz Schramm (red.): The Culture of Migra­tion. Politics, Aesthetics and Histories. I. B Taurus, London.