Jens Christian Borrebye Bjering
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Christian Borrebye Bjering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens Christian Borrebye |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjering |
| SIGNATURE | BJERING J C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0332-2825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecology, Capitalism and Waste: From Hyperobject to Hyperabject
The article develops the notion of the 'hyperabject' - coined by Danish poet Theis Ørntoft - into a proper theoretical concept. The term hyperabject is a synthesis of Timothy Morton's concept of hyperobjects and Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, and in the article we argue that the concept of the hyperabject entails a necessary critique of and correction to Morton's ecological thought, as well as various other versions of speculative realism,…
Imagining the "Unheard-Of" in Contemporary Cinema
Inspired by Jacques Derrida's essay "No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)" and its call for an openness to the "unheard-of" of disaster, the article investigates how disaster is imagined in contemporary cinema. Specifically, the essay sets up a three-fold typology constructed around the different ways in which a cluster of disaster films released between 1998 and 2011 conceive the dynamic between a cataclysmic…
Borrowing, Dwelling, Owing
Taking the movie The Company Men (John Wells, 2010) as its starting point, the article attempts to think the condition of indebtedness in its connection with living in and with a home. Through readings of Martin Heidegger’s “Building Dwelling Thinking,” the article claims that the predicament of the indebted person and his or her house can be described as linked to a shift in the way we view houses, from “places of dwelling” to “standing-reserves…
A Bipolar Machine: Sovereignty and Action in 24
This article examines the TV show 24 (2001–2010) and its one-season reboot (2014), tracing how they depict a fictional U.S. government torn between two paradigms of power: one centered on notions of sovereign power and one centered on the improvised, chaotic action of government agents and institutions. Using Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s notion of a “bipolar machine” as its conceptual framework, the article argues that the structure and …
The Dora Lange Archive: Jacques Derrida Watches True Detective
The first season of Nic Pizzolatto's True Detective (2014) is not only a show about a murder, but also a show about how to gather and organize information in an archive. Having identified two archival problems—its temporal and topical extension—the article turns to Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever: a Freudian Impression in order to explain how the archiving problems of the crime investigation are, in fact, intrinsic to any archiving practice. Last…
Depression og/eller apokalypse
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 d…
Ecology, Capitalism and Waste: From Hyperobject to Hyperabject
The article develops the notion of the 'hyperabject' - coined by Danish poet Theis Ørntoft - into a proper theoretical concept. The term hyperabject is a synthesis of Timothy Morton's concept of hyperobjects and Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, and in the article we argue that the concept of the hyperabject entails a necessary critique of and correction to Morton's ecological thought, as well as various other versions of speculative realism,…
Depression og/eller apokalypse
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 d…
The Dora Lange Archive: Jacques Derrida Watches True Detective
The first season of Nic Pizzolatto's True Detective (2014) is not only a show about a murder, but also a show about how to gather and organize information in an archive. Having identified two archival problems—its temporal and topical extension—the article turns to Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever: a Freudian Impression in order to explain how the archiving problems of the crime investigation are, in fact, intrinsic to any archiving practice. Last…
Borrowing, Dwelling, Owing
Taking the movie The Company Men (John Wells, 2010) as its starting point, the article attempts to think the condition of indebtedness in its connection with living in and with a home. Through readings of Martin Heidegger’s “Building Dwelling Thinking,” the article claims that the predicament of the indebted person and his or her house can be described as linked to a shift in the way we view houses, from “places of dwelling” to “standing-reserves…
A Bipolar Machine: Sovereignty and Action in 24
This article examines the TV show 24 (2001–2010) and its one-season reboot (2014), tracing how they depict a fictional U.S. government torn between two paradigms of power: one centered on notions of sovereign power and one centered on the improvised, chaotic action of government agents and institutions. Using Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s notion of a “bipolar machine” as its conceptual framework, the article argues that the structure and …
Imagining the "Unheard-Of" in Contemporary Cinema
Inspired by Jacques Derrida's essay "No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)" and its call for an openness to the "unheard-of" of disaster, the article investigates how disaster is imagined in contemporary cinema. Specifically, the essay sets up a three-fold typology constructed around the different ways in which a cluster of disaster films released between 1998 and 2011 conceive the dynamic between a cataclysmic…
Ecology, Capitalism and Waste: From Hyperobject to Hyperabject
The article develops the notion of the 'hyperabject' - coined by Danish poet Theis Ørntoft - into a proper theoretical concept. The term hyperabject is a synthesis of Timothy Morton's concept of hyperobjects and Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, and in the article we argue that the concept of the hyperabject entails a necessary critique of and correction to Morton's ecological thought, as well as various other versions of speculative realism,…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works)