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Keaton og masserne
Authors: Schmidt Ulrik
Published: October 2018

Keaton and the Masses:This article explores conflicts between individual and mass and the process of massification (i.e. the becoming and unfolding of masses) as comic potential in Buster Keaton’s physical comedies. This comic potential is basically characterized by a formalized and aestheticized reduction of human individuality when confronted with objective, non-human matter. De-individualization plays an important role in modern comedy in general. With his intense focus on massification, though, Keaton is not only one of the first, but also one of the most dedicated investigators of comic de-individualization by purely physical means.The first part of the article considers the complex relations in Keaton between gag and narrative with specific regard to the conflict between the individual and the masses. Furthermore, the basic compositional elements in Keaton’s cinematographic staging of individual-mass conflicts are explored, including deactivation and isolation of the individual in relation to his immediate surroundings.Subsequently, the different forms of massification in Keaton are examined more closely with reference to variation in their comic potential. Here, Keaton’s masses are grouped into three basic forms: In the solid mass—typically materialized in heavy objects and hard surfaces—the comic potential is due to its ability to violently tumble or jam the pacified individual into de-subjectified body mass. In the fluid mass, the comic potential is basically found in the unmanageable character of the soft, formless and constantly transforming phenomenon. In pure accumulation, Keaton focuses on the comic potential of the very formation of masses as a process of accumulation (i.e., the repetitive addition of discrete, more or less identical elements). Here, Keaton’s interest lies above all in the formation of human masses (crowds).The last section considers Keaton’s cinematographic distribution of individual gags on the global scale of the entire film. Here, it is analyzed how Keaton incessantly glues the individual gags together into one large and seamlessly continuous gag. It is thus concluded that not only is each individual gag characterized by massification, but the way the different gags are interrelated throughout Keaton’s films also has a profound mass character.
Call for artikler
Authors: Kultur & Klasse Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Call for artikler til K&K. Kultur og Klasse, nr. 110, 2010TEMA: Overvågning i samtidskunsten: surveillance og sousveillance
HAVNEN OG DET HETEROGENE BYRUM - NORDHAVN BETRAGTET GENNEM GEORGES BATAILLES HETEROLOGI
Authors: Schytter Helene
Published: October 2018

THE HARBOUR AND THE HETEROGENEOUS URBAN. NORDHAVN READ ON THE BASIS OF BATAILLES HETEROLOGYThis article deals with the revitalisation of post-industrial waterfronts on the basis of the French philosopher Georges Bataille’s concept of the heterogeneous. Using the northern harbour area in Copenhagen (Nordhavn) as its analysis site, the article investigates the way in which a heterologically based position can be introduced into urban space-making, pointing to a different urban ideal and the possibility of including something formless and wholly other in the conventional development process. Based on Bataille’s heterology, Nordhavn can predominantly be considered a radically different urban space on a spatial, reflexive and socio-cultural level. The harbour area can be characterised on the basis of four spatial types (ruin, shed, accumulation monument and terrain vague), each expressing aheterogeneous aesthetic identity as something more or less excluded, non-ideal, and entropy- and waste-like. The heterogeneous typology thus establishes the experience of a progressive spatial formlessness, as well as emphasising the aesthetic and cultural potential in urban wastelands. In this sense, the heterogeneous urban environment underlines the importance of the procedural, non-planned, unexpected, other and hybrid in relation to the current discussions about how to create a vibrant urban space. In the age of gentrification, wall-to-wall city design and homogenised waterfronts, a heterogeneously inspired urbandevelopment may thus generate an alternative aesthetic strategy leading towards a more value-pluralistic city.
OVERVÅGNINGENS KUNST - OVERVÅGNINGSDYSTOPIER OG INTERFACEBEGÆR I DET URBANE RUM I 1984, FACELESS OG ANDRE URBANE INTERFACES
Authors: Pold Søren Bro
Published: October 2018

THE ART OF SURVEILLANCEFor many years surveillance was perceived in a negative way, but this has changed and we increasingly are surveilled by cameras and sensors and our behaviour on-line is logged and tracked by both companies and (inter-)national intelligence. Far from generating overwhelming protests, this development is often furthered by people willingly posting personal and private data to commercial services and companies on the web. Consequently today, surveillance seems unavoidable and an integrated part of the different social and urban interfaces spreading around us. This article will discuss this cultural shift in the perception of surveillance and follow how the cultural perception of surveillance has changed from George Orwell’s dystopian 1984 to Apple’s liberating 1984 in the advert for the first Macintosh and to contemporary urban interfaces. It will do so by discussing contemporary urban surveillance art with a focus on Manu Luksch’ film Faceless (2007), which is a film made exclusively from ready-made surveillance camera footage. Besides a critical surveillance narrative, this film also shows dehumanised images of an invisible sociality that have a paradoxical beauty.
KONTROLSAMFUND OG KANONBÅDSDIPLOMATI - ET FORSØG PÅ AT ADRESSERE SPØRGSMÅLET OM KOMBINATIONEN AF DECENTRALE NETVÆRK OG SUVERÆNITET EFTER 9/11 MED UDGANGSPUNKT I DELEUZES “POSTSCRIPTUM OM KONTROLSAMFUNDET”
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

CONTROL SOCIETY AND GUN BOAT DIPLOMACYAn attempt to address the question of the relationship between decentred networks and sovereignty after 9/11 starting from Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control”.In 1990 Gilles Deleuze published his short text “Postscript on the Societies of Control” in which he presented an almost intuitive analysis of contemporary capitalist society explaining how we were going from the separate spheres of disciplinary society to a flexible network-based society where the traditional discourses and institutions were being broken down in favour of a continual control where the individual was always in school, in prison or at work. Deleuze’s brief text was highly influential but since 9/11 and the declaration of the so-called ‘war on terror’ it has seemed necessary to supplement the analysis of the complex functioning of the control society with analysis that either stress the return of sovereignty (like Giorgio Agamben) or map the workings of capitalist economy (like David Harvey). This paper looks at this development and discusses the relationship between networks and sovereignty today.
OVERVÅGNING SOM LOVGIVNING - HASAN ELAHI OG SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERS SOM EKSEMPEL
Authors: Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2018

SURVEILLANCE AS LAW. CASE-STUDIES OF HASAN ELAHI AND THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERSThis article traces sousveillance strategies in two pieces of contemporary art, namely in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience (2002), and 1984 by The Surveillance Camera Players. It discusses the ways that contemporary art reflects surveillance in an ironic and metareflective way. The article is based on the idea that the conditions for understanding the logics of surveillance have changed since World War II. It takes its point of departure in Gilles Deleuze’s proposition that we live in post-disciplinarian societies and that contemporary surveillance should be understood not according to the logic of the panopticon but according to the logic of a coded ‘control society’ based on modulations. It also follows the idea, proposed by Larry Catá Backer that surveillance not only is a phenomenon facilitated by law but is also a phenomenon that creates its own law and regulation.
Anmeldelse: HVORFOR VI ELSKER ROLAND BARTHES
Authors: Lund Jacob
Published: October 2018

ANMELDELSE AFCarsten Meiner (red.): Roland Barthes. En antologi, København, 2007 (Museum Tusculanums Forlag)
Når psykiateren har brug for en psykiater. Om Jacques Lacans 'Spejllæsning' af James Joyce
Authors: Boysen Benjamin Jon
Published: October 2018

WHEN THE PSYCHIATRIST NEEDS A PSYCHIATRIST. ON JACQUES LACAN’S ‘MIRROR READING’ OF JAMES JOYCEIn continuation of Jung, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan advances the view (especially in the seminar from 1975-76 entitled ‘Le sinthome’) that Joyce’s writing is a particular individual symptom of Joyce’s latently psychotic mind, which the author uses in his own quasi-psychotic art that, reversely, secured him against an actual outbreak. In this reading of Joyce, Lacan is guilty of what I label a mirror-reading: On the one hand he unconsciously (being spellbound by the allurement of identification) iterates motifs and gesticulations of Joyce’s own text, whereby a hermeneutical intervention does not come off (he does not add anything to the text); on the other hand he grossly misreads Joyce’s biographyand work from an unformulated projection of his own life story, whereby a hermeneutical intervention, moreover, does not come off, since the text remains untouched (it does not add anything to him). The synthesis of text and reader does not occur, and Lacan’s erroneous misreading is striking, yet highly interesting as a symptom of the madness of the interpreter himself that lies dormant ready at any moment to break out in any interpretative situation as such. Lacan remains caught up in his own symptom, whose name rightfully is given and must be understood as ‘Joyce’ – or more generally put: The interpretation of a text always contains the danger that the interpreter unceasingly – and without knowing it – stages his own mad (self-contradictory) symptom. A symptom I have chosen to call the mirror-reading.
St. St. Blicher og jøderne. Blichers politiske forfatterskab
Authors: Kjærgaard Kristoffer
Published: October 2018

ST. ST. BLICHER AND THE JEWS. BLICHER’S POLITICIAL AUTHORSHIPThis article is a study in the political authorship of St. St. Blicher who is known by Danish literary historiography chiefly as a writer of short stories. Less known is the fact that he actually wrote both for and against the Danish-Jewish community in the course of his career. An examination of Blicher’s vast non-literary authorship makes way for a new Blicher, less disembodied from the general historical situation of his time. Politically Blicher is an interesting figure because he didn’t condone the state centralism of the liberal nationalism. Instead, Blicher’s philosophical relativism is closely connected with a certain political regionalism, which acted as the determining factor when he sided with the Jews under the literary feud in 1813. Quite contra-intuitively, it was also one of the deciding factors when he wrote a series of anti-Semitic pieces in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in the late 1830s. Blicher’s politics of cultural recognition is haunted by a deeply rooted ambivalence: The political turns may seem self-contradictory, but do actually possess an inner logicW– a logic not entirely unrelated to the very ideologies and politics Blicher earlier had sought to distance himself from.
"Blodet suser". Melodrama og emotioner i Herman Bangs "De fire djævle"
Authors: Heitmann Annegret
Published: October 2018

“THE BLOOD RUSHES”. MELODRAMA AND EMOTIONS IN HERMAN BANG’S “DE FIRE DJÆVLE”Starting from the melodramatic quality of some of Herman Bang’s texts, the article tries to show its specific function through a reading of “De fire Djævle”. Applying some thoughts of current research on affectivity, it links the narrative expressions of strongemotions to contemporary discourses on trauma on the one hand, and energy and entropy on the other. Affects are shown to be unreliable signs of complex or even repressed phenomena;the story therefore advocates scepticism regarding language, which has an analogy in the silence of the four artistes. Their trapeze-act can be read as a poetological signal for the storyitself: dramatic feelings issue from a self-discipline that withholds its repressed motivation.
Musik og design. Phil spector og lydfladens medialisering
Authors: Schmidt Ulrik
Published: October 2018

MUSIC AND DESIGN. PHIL SPECTOR AND SOUNDSCAPES MEDIATIZATIONPhil Spector is often referred to as one of history’s first true music producers, and his famed ‘Wall of Sound’ has been the model for many future musical productions. However, Spector’s productions can also be seen as an early manifestation, among others, of a much more general change in the auditory popular culture around 1960 away from the conventional approach to musicalsound as something that depends primarily on a musical performance and secondarily its technical reproduction S towards a conception of music as a form of design. Hence, Spector’s productions make a favorable material for a more general investigation of the relationship between music and design. Despite the rather extensive literature on Spector and his music, and on sound recording and sound production in general, the different aspects of Spector’s design have not yet been the subject of a broader phenomenological and aesthetic investigation. “Music and Design” explores the key elements in Spector’s musical project through an analysis of his use of repetition, accumulation and synthetized sound in hit recordings such as He’s a Rebel (1962) and Be My Baby (1963). It is argued that Spector’s productions are basically characterized by a displacement of the auditory focus from external media conditions, to musical sound as simultaneously a more synthetic and mediatized as well as moremassive and ‘massified’ soundscape. This mediatization of the soundscape would later constitute a predominant aesthetic model not only in current music production, but in modern sound design in general.
Anmeldelse: SAMTIDSPOESI I TILBAGEBLIK
Authors: Friis Elisabeth
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af PETER STEIN LARSENDrømme og dialoger. To poetiske traditioner omkring 2000Odense, 2009 (Syddansk Universitetsforlag).560 Sider.
Unaturlige fortællinger. Hinsides mimetiske modeller
Authors: Alber Jan , Iversen Stefan , Nielsen Henrik Skov , Richardson Brian
Published: October 2018

UNNATURAL NARRATIVES, UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY | In recent years, the study of unnatural narrative has developed into one of the most exciting new paradigms in narrative theory. Both younger and more established scholars have become increasingly interested in the analysis of unnatural texts, many of which have been consistently neglected or marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. By means of the collaboration of four scholars who have been developing unnatural narratology, this article seeks to summarize key principles, to consolidate some conclusions, to extend the work through carefully chosen examples, and, finally, to point toward the future.
Set sådan lidt fra oven. - Om det unaturlige i narratologien og i J.P. Jacobsens "Et Skud i Taagen"
Authors: Bøggild Jacob
Published: October 2018

AS VIEWED SOMEWHAT FROM ABOVE | First; the relationship between the two positions of natural and unnatural narratology is discussed. It is pointed out that even if they appear to live together in relative harmony and supplement each other in productive ways, they may have to disagree more fundamentally with each other if they are to formulate their respective conceptions of language. Subsequently, an exemplary reading of J.P. Jacobsen’s short story “Et skud i Taagen” is undertaken.First, the question of genre is discussed, since the story appears to be a ghost story that does not really want to be such a story in a traditional sense. Todorov’s idea that the fantastic in literature originates from rhetorical figures becomes the point of departure for a further reading of the story. It is demonstrated that the literalization of a now forgotten idiom, the becoming fictional reality of a simile, and metonymy, is what conjures up the ghost in the narrative. The unnatural or supernatural is thus a product of language in the strictest sense possible. Furthermore, another rhetorical or literary phenomenon, namely free indirect speech, is used with devious effects by Jacobsen, since it is evoked to produce a couple of perspectives or points of view that are simplyimpossible. The literary language of the story can thus not only conjure up the unnatural or supernatural, it can also blind the reader to the sheer impossibility of what is written on the page.
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Editorial, K&K #113
Rugemødre, rejser og nye reproduktionsmetaforer. Weblogs om transnationalt surrogatmoderskab
Authors: Madsen Karen Hvidtfeldt
Published: October 2018

SURROGACY MOTHERS, TRAVELS AND NEW REPRODUCTION METAPHORS | Surrogacy is a growing industry in India, as still more infertile couples, homosexual couples and singles from the Western world, travel abroad to fulfill their dream of having a baby. Indian clinics offer highly specialized services in exotic surroundings, an obliging culture and legislation, and remarkably low payments. This article examines and discusses how the conception of motherhood is constructed in public weblogs narrated by parents and intended parents of Indian surrogate children. The chapter aims at analyzing the rhetorical, narrative and metaphorical strategies of the blogs, focusing on how the biological aspects of motherhood (for instance pregnancy and giving birth) and the transnational aspects are negotiated and reinterpreted in the present context of globalization, tech nological possibilities and consumer culture.
Udlandet tur-retur. Sådan får man også børn
Authors: Kroløkke Charlotte Halmø
Published: October 2018

GOING ABROAD AND BACK | How do Danish women negotiate egg donation when it involves travelling to clinics in Spain or the Czech Republic? This article employs anthropological and sociological feminist literature on assisted reproductive tech nologies and transnational reproduction to understand the dynamics at play when Danish women travel to Spain or the Czech Republic foregg donation. The empirical material includes interviews with Danish women who are either planning to travel or who have already travelled for egg donation. The essay suggests that Danish women employ conventional understandings of both femininity and nationalized discourses. They mediate their border crossings not only as a type of gifting but also as a particular type of transnational service. Fertility travel is naturalized, in these discourses in light of the interviewees’ desire to become mothers and, in the process, re-positioning transnational egg donation as a form of global sisterhood.
Rural angst. "Deliverance" og det brutale møde med det postindustrielle Amerikas efterladenskaber
Authors: Lillemose Jacob , Meyhoff Karsten Wind
Published: October 2018

RURAL FEAR | The article presents a reading of Joh n Boorman’s classic movie Deliverance (1972) (based on the 1970 debut novel by James Dickey) that interprets the narrative in relation tospecific points of modern American history and popular culture. The reading opposes the most common interpretation of Deliverance as a story about a search for a lost masculinity, and suggests that the story about the four Atlanta suburbanites’ dramatic weekend-trip down the Cahulawassee River should be seen as a violent confrontation between the industrial revolution represented by the early mining adventures in the Appalachian region, and the post-industrial revolution represented by thenew economy of immaterial labour. In this perspective, what the main characters experience are the consequences of the cultural and social violence that the post-industrial revolution exerts on a landscape and its inhabitants, which were essential to the industrial revolution. Rather than encountering the beautiful and untouched American nature like some modern-day frontier men, they venture on a journey into a highly contested political landscape steeped in antagonisms reminiscent of those that characterised the encounter between the frontier men and the Native Americans in the 18th and 19th century. In conclusion, the article claims that Deliverance constitutes a genre defining workfor so-called “backwoods horror”, a genre that has experienced a new heyday in the last decade.
Utopiska strategier i Christine de Pizans Kvinnostaden
Authors: Franzén Carin
Published: October 2018

UTOPIAN STRATEGIES IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S CITY OF LADIES | Christine de Pizan’s appropriation of the dominant literary discourse in the later Middle Ages is an innovative reworking of established models, especially that of the configuration of women in the two directions of idealization and debasement. In the article I assess the strategies Christine develops to counteract this dialectic in order to open a newM– utopianM– discursive space for female subjectivity. My examples are mainly taken from Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1404-1405). Late medieval representations of women incorporate a radical change from the idealization of the Lady and love in courtly literature into a more explicit misogynistic configuration, which can be seen for example in Le Roman de  la Rose (c. 1230). I argue that Christine responds to this change by a disclosure of this ambiguous discourse towards what it represses, i.e. a cultural unconscious of violent and incestuous dramas.
Karl Marx og fortidens utopiske potentialer
Authors: Nygaard Bertel
Published: October 2018

KARL MARX AND THE UTOPIAN POTENTIALS OF THE PAST | Karl Marx explicitly situated modern emancipation struggles in the present rejecting the power of the past over the presentalong with utopian schemes for the future. But a closer study of his position reveals that his notion of the present was remarkably open towards aspects of the past and potentials for future alternatives, as long as these were conceived from – and as moments within – present struggles. Thus, his rejection ofcertain visions of past and future was mainly a critique of specific ideological configurations characteristic of modern bourgeois society, including reified notions of the past, history and temporality. From this critique we may derive a fruitful, discerning approach to the complex interrelations of utopia, ideology, past, present and future, founded on a critical reconstruction of the category of time as a differentialsocial relation, persistently constructed and reconstructed through conflictual social agency.
Total teater. Samhällsutopier på scen under Weimarrepubliken
Authors: Jonsson Stefan
Published: October 2018

TOTAL TEATER - STAGING UTOPIA IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC  | Highlighting a crucial topic in the utopian aesthetics developed in the European interwar period, this article discusses the radical ideas of placing society on stage, and of turning theatre into a medium for the self-representation of society. Illustrations and examples are drawn mainly from Erwin Piscator, and his collaboration with Walter Gropius in a project that they conceived of as “the Total Theatre” (Das Totaltheater). As the essay argues, these ideas of a new stage craft and performance were perhaps the most daring interventions among the wild and unruly democratic experiments of the Weimar Republic, and they usefully illustrate what Walter Benjamin had in mind as he, in the same period, cryptically endorsed the aesthetico-political idea of an artwork that is “being absorbed by the masses”.
Den vedblivende utopi
Authors: Abensour Miguel
Published: October 2018

PERSISTENT UTOPIA | Persistent utopia is not to be confused with the conservative notion of an eternal utopia as a static and authoritarian ideal. Rather, persistent utopia is an impulse towards freedom and justice. It is a fragile phenomenon which is seeking to avoid the closure of reality through a constant displacement. The sites of the persistent utopia can be located at two different levels: through the ontological thinking of Ernst Bloch and through the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas which takes the encounter as its point of departure. The present forms of the persistence of utopia can be seen, e.g., in the “new utopian spirit” as a responseto the dialectics of emancipation, and in the relation between utopia and democracy.
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Redaktionelt forord.Spørgsmålet om fiktion er et af de mest omdiskuterede inden for litteraturteori og fortælleteori. Ikke sjældent glider spørgsmål om tre forskellige termer umærkeligt sammen, nemlig spørgsmålene om fiktion, om fortælling og om litteratur. I dette nummer af K&K belyses forskellige aspekter af fiktion og fiktionalitet - på tværs af genrer og udtryksformer, og på tværs af det, vi til daglig betragter som virkeligt eller fundet på.
AUTENTICITET OG FIKTIONALITET - I JUNOT DÍAZ’ THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
Authors: Bøndergaard Johanne Helbo
Published: October 2018

AUTHENTICITY AND FICTIONALITY | Traditionally literature on historical traumas such as genocide, war and dictatorship has shown careful respect for the extraordinary and tragic nature of the events in question by representing them in soberly realistic, silent or hermetic forms and in authentic testimonies expressing a general sensitivity to the ethical implications of colourful and enjoyable aesthetics. Recently, though, art and literature on memory and history seems to leave behind testimony and the careful performance of silence exploring instead hybrid forms,interaction with visual media, vibrant language and perspectives other than those of the witness and the victim. Junot Díaz’ novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is one example.The hypothesis explored in this article is that Díaz’ loud and colourful book uses fictionality to counter the silence and oppression of death and dictatorship that is also carefully explored.I argue that the excessive use of “genre” references and magical events explores the limits of authentic representation of historical trauma suggesting instead a reading strategy in which historycan be approached emotionally and critically through the explicit use of fictionality.
AFFEKT OG RUM
Authors: Tygstrup Frederik
Published: October 2018

AFFECT AND SPACE | Emotional qualities are not only something that pertain to individual psychic lives, they are also to be found, as the saying goes, ”in the air”, i.e. as atmospheres, shared collective experiences of events and places. However evident this insight may be, languages to describe such experiences are nonetheless quite rare, and most of them tend to simply apply the concepts of individual psychology to collective states of mind. The present article will suggest two closely related approaches to the understanding of atmospheric and collective emotional experiences. The first will develop the notion of affects and affectivity, as theorized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus. The second approach will focus specifically on the spatial nature of such atmospheric and social affects. Profiting from the recent ‘spatial turn’ in cultural studies, which has radically extended our understanding of space and enabled us to map spatial relations that go beyond the merely positional, the paper will highlight the affective component in the relational production of human space. Combining a more traditional phenomenological understanding of human space with contemporary mappings of social space, the article examines how geographic, social and existential relations are involved in the production of affects and, inversely, how the affective takes part in the production of social experiences of space. The endeavor is partly theoretical, discussing these conceptual moves, and partly draws on a number of literaryand cinematic works in which important contemporary affective spaces are mapped and examined.
DANTES LITTERÆRE ATMOSFÆROLOGI
Authors: Brink Dennis Meyhoff
Published: October 2018

DANTE’S LITERARY ATMOSPHEROLOGY | The article argues that recent theories on affect and atmosphere by, for instance, Teresa Brennan, Lauren Berlant, and Peter Sloterdijk, can enter into an extraordinarily fruitful interchange with Dante’s Divine Comedy. On the one hand, these theories can direct our attention to the hitherto overlooked atmospheric phenomena that occur ubiquitously in Dante’s Comedy and provide us with concepts that render them legible as products of human emissions. On the other hand, the numerous descriptions of different atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy can contribute to overcoming the lack of linguistic specifications and distinctions which – according to theorists such as Brian Massumi and Peter Sloterdijk – characterizes today’s Western understanding of affective atmospheres and impedes its ongoing theorization. Based on readings of a selected number of atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy, the article argues that the Comedy not only anticipated insights that were not articulated theoretically until the twentieth and twenty-first century, butalso makes up an exceptional encyclopedia of affective atmospheres that have not yet been examined, neither by Dante researchers, nor by theorists of affects and atmospheres. Therefore, both camps have much to learn from Dante’s literary atmospherology, which the article aims to make explicit.
URETFÆRDIGHEDSSTEMNING - POETISK URETFÆRDIGHED I GUSTAVE FLAUBERTS ”ET ENFOLDIGT HJERTE”
Authors: Holm Isak Winkel
Published: October 2018

THE SENSE OF WRONG. POETIC INJUSTICE IN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT’S ”A SIMPLE SOUL” | Gustave Flaubert’s late short story ”A simple soul” from 1877 defies any expectation of poetic justice. Absolutely no justice is done to Mdm Aubain’s hard-working maid Félicité. Using Félicité’s sad case, this article will set out to rethink the theoretical approach to the relationship between fiction and justice. The basic claim being that justice in fiction does not necessarily take shape as an administration of justice but can also be present as a mood of injustice. ”A simple soul” does not depict somebody who experiences a sense of injustice and cries out loud to somebody else; instead, an anonymous something is crying to heaven. The article conceptualizes this atmospheric mood of injustice by comparing Madame Aubin’s maid to six other subordinate and oppressed female figures from Western cultural history.
SELVFREMSTILLING – NU OGSÅ GENNEM ANDRE OG ANDET
Authors: Haarder Jon Helt
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af:ARNE MELBERGSjälvskrivet. Om selvframställning i litteraturenStockholm, 2008, (Atlantis), 248 sider
FORORD
Authors: Bøggild Jacob , Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2018

Redaktionelt forord
HISTORIENS PRISME - NUTIDENS HELT
Authors: Christensen Tea Dahl
Published: October 2018

THE PRISM OF HISTORY. THE HERO OF THE PRESENCE | The article presents a case of commemorative practice. The practice evolves around a historic soldier hero, Niels Kjeldsen. At the commemoration Danish soldiers, a reenactment group, a political representative and citizens participate. The case demonstrates how past and present are connected through the participants meaning-making of the commemoration. The historical soldier is used as a prism that allows the participants to commemorate and celebrate present time soldiers as potential heroes. Thereby the commemoration creates a space for acknowledging present time soldiers as potential heroes.
NÆRBILLEDER OG MODFORTÆLLINGER - INTERMEDIALITET, ERINDRING OG HISTORIEFREMSTILLING HOS KLUGE, SEBALD OG FOER
Authors: Tanderup Sara
Published: October 2018

CLOSE-UPS AND COUNTER STORIES | Recently, several literary works have appeared which use formal experiments and intermedial strategies to thematize memory and history. Authors such as Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, Daniel Mendelsohn, Monica Maron, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo and Aleksandar Hemon include other, primarily visual, media such as film, photographs and drawings, in their works while dealing with historical events like the Holocaust or the 9/11 terror attack. My article discusses this tendency, analyzing works by Kluge, Sebald and Foer. They all work with photographs in their texts. I trace the differences between them, following how ’foto-fiction’ as a genre has developed during the last three decades while arguing that Kluge, Sebald and Foer can all be read as part of the same tendency: Inspired by Andreas Huyssen’s idea of a modern memory culture, I suggest that the modern intermedial works can be read as an expression of a current cultural situation brought about by changes in the mediascape. Of course, books with pictures have always existed, however, the modern works are different from the typical illustrated novel as well as traditional history books, since they do not use the visual material to illustrate or document the story. Rather, images and text are brought together to introduce some tensions; to navigate between fiction and documentary, between an intimate remembering gaze and the ’objective’ writing of history. Intermediality thus becomes a tool to reflect upon modern conditions of writing history.
SEFARAD - BIDRAG TIL EN FÆLLES EUROPÆISK ERINDRING
Authors: Paulsen Lasse-Emil
Published: October 2018

A CONTRIBUTION TO A COMMON EUROPEAN MEMORY | Since 1975 Spain has been engaged in the recuperation of the memory of the past. Yet there seems to be an agreement that it is only over the course of the last ten years that an open and genuine debate has started. The purpose of this article is to re-think the argument, stating that what is at stake is really a change of form in the memory debate. Drawing on theories from Astrid Erll (2011) and Michael Rothberg (2009), the article aims to show how the novel Sefarad by the Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina could be read as a literary manifestation of a multidirectional memory, in which different memory scenarios in dialogue inscribe the memory of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship into a common European memory context. Moreover, the article argues that Sefarad positions itself as a paradigmatic example of a global cosmopolitan memory discourse which tries to transcend traditional Manichean divisions between “us” and “them”. In the context of Spanish contemporary politics, it is hard to imagine how a cosmopolitan approach should be implemented without risks of political (ab)use. In that respect it will be argued that the literary discourse, seen as a reconciliatory discourse, takes precedence over other discourses in the ongoing memory debate by emphasizing a collective and transnational responsibility for the past.
Forord
Authors: Bolt m.fl. Mikkel
Published: October 2018

Forord
Tilrettelagt deltagelse: Happy-deltagelsesformer
Authors: Strandvad Sara Malou , Svabo Connie
Published: October 2018

Illustrated with the case of Pharrell William’s global hit Happy and its life on the internet, this paper looks into how audience participation can be scripted and how scripted forms of participation can morph. Positioned in participatory culture studies, originating from cultural and media studies, this paper proposes a perspective inspired by actor-network theory that highlights the script entail in planned participation and the ways in which this script may sometimes be followed and sometimes also be used as a repertoire to improvise over. Based in empirical examples from Happy the paper outlines four ways of making audiences participate: as cast in well-defined productions, as interactive audience participating by clicking, liking and commenting, as crew conducing a set assignment in a larger production, and as re-producers making their own versions of an original format. With these four forms participation, the paper suggests seeing participatory culture as a multiple and on-going phenomenon where planners aim to configure users and users contribute with re-configurations that planners may take up.
Konstmässan och barn: Pilvi Takalas The Committee
Authors: Hacklin Saara
Published: October 2018

Participation has become a popular strategy within contemporary art. Previously, it has been associated with avant garde art, yet nowadays it has become central strategy in the arts, often favored by politicians and other funders. As a result, participatory art finds itself in a strategy becomes unreflected. Phenomenology, and especially Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, has been mostly associated with the 1960s Minimalism, as it influencedAmerican artists to explore the position of the spectator and the lived experience of the artwork. However, as phenomenology was associated with modernism, it has been often deemed insufficient to address the political dimension of contemporary art from the late 1960s onwards. In order to find a way to connect the apolitical phenomenology of the 1960s minimalism to the political art of today, I discuss a case study of Pilvi Takala's (b. 1980) The Committee (2013). With this piece Takala won the Emdash prize at Frieze art fair in London. The work consisted of a simple gesture: in it she gave, 7.000 pounds, most of the production budget included in the prize to a group of children. The children could freely use the money as long as they made the decision together. The Committee brings together children and money at an art fair, using the strategies of socially engaged art. In the article I examine the piece from a phenomenological vantage point in order to understand the different levels of the work.
Islændingesagaer og erindring
Authors: Hermann Pernille
Published: October 2018

Based on the assumption that the longstanding discussion about history/fiction has exhausted itself, this article suggests an alternative approach to the sagas of Icelanders. It approaches the sagas from a memory perspective and illustrates how two concepts of memory: cultural memory and artificial memory, provide us with useful methodological tools for opening new dimensions of saga narratives.
Den uengagerede litteraturs fødsel
Authors: Kjærgård Jonas Ross
Published: October 2018

Tue Andersen Nexø: Ikke de voldsomme. Politisk offentlighed og offentlig skønlitteratur, England 1640-1750. København: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2014, 331 sider
Hystorie
Authors: Steinskog Erik
Published: October 2018

Lis Norup: Hysteriens tid. Charcot – Breuer – Freud. Aarhus: Klim, 2013, 335 sider
Om at udfordre den svenske exceptionalisme - At undervise som sort
Authors: Habel Ylva
Published: October 2018

Sweden imagines itself as a race-less, tolerant country, purportedly less affected by postcolonial relations than other nations, by virtue of its welfare politics, and its democratic, egalitarian principles. This national self-image, which is situated within a regional discursive framework of Nordic exceptionalism, has been contested by intersectional, postcolonial, critical race and whiteness studies; yet there is a widespread conviction that Sweden has had no real part in the imperial adventure, and therefore remains untouched by colonial and postcolonial social dynamics. These persistent claims to political innocence are often forcefully reproduced as three forms of positioning: sanctioned ignorance, normative colorblindness, and white liberal doubt. Working as a Black scholar and teacher within a postcolonial curriculum in this context involves several challenges. The article adresses the pedagogical challenges I face as a Black film and media studies scholar in pedagogical situations where I teach predominantly white students about media representations of the African Diaspora. Taking my point of departure in Swedish everyday discourse that negates the significance of race, my article visualizes some of the obstacles and challenges that I encounter in teaching situations on predominantly postcolonial courses. While working to encourage students to let go of sanctioned ignorance about racial issues, one of my greatest challenges has been to make them unlearn the colorblindness that has long been a cherished part of Swedish identity.
Sygdom, helbredelse, sundhed
Authors: Canguilhem Georges
Published: October 2018

”Sygdom, helbredelse, sundhed” er et oversat uddrag af kapitlet ”Maladie, guérison, santé” i Georges Canguilhem, Le normal et le pathologique, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015, 170-175.Oversat af Rolf Reitan.
Der er en særlig plads i Helvede for dovne børn
Authors: Eriksen Camilla Bruun
Published: October 2018

This article takes a closer look at the educational computer game Life Calculator (2010) and its attempts to inform young people about health risks and it argues that the game becomes a biopolitical and disciplinary tool. Drawing on the work of Foucault, the article claims that specific bodies are made (im)possible through the game’s strong narrative about Hell, death and health. The article will show how this narrative helps create ’healthy’ and ’liveable’ subject positions (for some) while understandings (of what health is or could be) that differ from the game’s view are stigmatized in the process. Inspired also by Sara Ahmed and her claim that emotions are cultural practices that hold affective power and organize our modes of life, this article is interested in the ways the ‘healthy’ body is understood as tied to life and therefore gets to count as life. The article concludes that health logics are organized and negotiated through a fearsome narrative about the ‘fat’ and ‘unhealthy’ body.
Krigens takt
Authors: Fastrup Anne
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af "Empire of chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things". Harvard University Press.
Postmigration. Mod et nyt kritisk perspektiv på migration og kultur
Authors: Petersen Anne Ring , Schramm Moritz
Published: October 2018

The classical canon of ‘critical theory’ – the early Frankfurt School, Marxist and post-Marxist theories – has lead to a tradition of understanding cultural critique solely as a subversive critique directed against Western confidence in progress, normative concepts of the subject and identity formation, the culture industry etc. In studies of migration and culture, this notion of critique has manifested itself as a preference for the so-called ‘spaces in-between’ and a general rejection of all identity and subject constructions. Our own work in this field has made it increasingly clear to us that critical cultural theory and analysis can also be severely hampered by the subversive approach. Today, critical practice must thus entail taking the next step: to develop and discuss alternatives that can open new perspectives. In this spirit, the article accounts for the idea of a postmigrant perspective that aims at overcoming the dichotomy between ‘majority’ and ‘minorities’, and which makes it possible to take a fresh, but still critical, approach to the transformative impact of migration on society. After unpacking the idea of the ‘postmigrant’, the article proceeds to reflect on how a critical cultural analysis that applies a postmigrant perspective can contribute to developing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of recognition and structural discrimination, thereby revitalising two classical themes in critical theory: suppression and recognition.
Litteraturens kritik. Franz Kafka og den kritiske sensibilitet
Authors: Holm Isak Winkel
Published: October 2018

The article discusses the usefulness of the concept of critique for the understanding of the relation between literature and politics. Exploring two recent books about the political dimension of Franz Kafka’s literary works – Vivian Liska’s When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature (2009) and Michael Löwy’s Franz Kafka: rêveur insoumis (2004) – the article distinguishes between two different understandings of critique: critique of ideology and post-structuralist critique. In Liska’s and Löwy’s interpretations of Kafka, these two standard understandings of critique are unable to grasp the critical potential of Kafka’s literary works in general and of Kafka’s short story “Fellowship” from 1920 in particular. Instead, based on Jacques Rancière’s concept of ‘dissensus’, the article puts forward a concept of critique based on the reader’s aesthetic experience of Kafka’s literary works.
Kulturkritikk av volden? Begivenhet, tilblivelse og det reelle
Authors: Ohldieck Hans Jacob , Selnes Gisle
Published: October 2018

This article discusses the topic of violence within the framework of cultural criticism. More specifically, it asks whether a scrutiny of the concept of the event (événement) in Gilles Deleuze’s and Alain Badiou’s different conceptions could provide new insights into today’s paradigm of cultural criticism and its access to violence as phenomenon. For both thinkers, the event causes a rupture in the existing order of discourse and could thus shed light upon the limits of cultural criticism as well as on the elusive “essence” of violence. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s conceptual framework, the last part of the article expands the discussion to include the critical field of New Historicism, which arguably shares a “programmatic inclusiveness” with both Cultural Studies and cultural criticism. As part of this expansion, Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning brings about a discussion of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, a discussion that serves to illustrate the contrasts between the real violence of Badiou and the baroque fold of Deleuze, i.e. the vacuity (vide) of Badiou’s event versus the affirmative plenitude of Deleuze’s philosophy. Holbein’s painting thus serves to highlights the “parallax view” that might be the vantage point to access violence as the repressed other of today’s cultural criticism.
Vores tidsalder er ikke længere kritikkens egentlige tidsalder
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: October 2018

Kritik, krise, skrig
Historisk topik
Authors: Curtius Ernst Robert
Published: October 2018

I det følgende vil vi beskæftige os med poesiens retoriske temaer. Dermed mener jeg ikke poesiens genstandsområde (fx krigshandlinger, fyrstelovprisning, sædelære, natur- og kunstbeskrivelse, hyrdeliv, kærlighed) og heller ikke mytiske, historiske eller religiøse motiver (Troja, Alexander, visioner om det hinsidige). Snarere handler det om de retoriske skemaer fra antikken, som kaldes topoi eller loci eller loci communes, det som man i en nedsættende undertone gengiver som Gemeinplätze [klichéer] på tysk. På ældre tysk siger man mere rigtigt: Gemeinort [almensted]. Hver plads er et sted, men ikke hvert sted er en plads! Men hvad er et ”retorisk sted”? Hvordan skal man forstå denne metafor? Det skal man fra den antikke retoriks historie.
Topos og motiv. Et forskningshistorisk rids
Authors: Dahl Christian
Published: October 2018

The aim of this article is to clarify how literary topology relates historically and conceptually to the study of literary motifs. Topos and motif are associated concepts in literary theory, but attempts to define and compare them are evasive and few. While literary topology was, according to Ernst Robert Curtius, founded on the basis of classical rhetoric and concerned primarily the literary tradition of rhetorical eloquence, the notion of motif was, as I will argue, on the contrary conceived as a critical term at a time when rhetoric was loosing its grip on literary criticism at the end of the 18th century. My article will survey a number of influential positions in the history of literary theory and criticism concerning the study of motifs and topoi from Goethe to contemporary contextualist approaches.