Mads Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mads Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mads |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9234-0453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward individualistic reproduction: Solving the fertility crisis could require a further marginalization of men
≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world-with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control-followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to "free women" has been so diminished that solving t…
Libertine Love as a Proto-Romantic Mating Ideology in Fredmans epistlar
An evolutionary approach to the Romantic Century offers insights into the era’s ideological diversity and progression of ideals. Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) makes for a particularly illuminating case study. He transformed drinking songs into world literature, sanctifying uncommitted sex and devaluing marriage. His magnus opus, Fredman’s Epistles (1790), made later critics praise him as Scandinavia’s greatest poet. His songs have been compare…
Americanizing the Scandinavian Super Underdog in Eighteen Film Remakes
transcultural film remakes can offer insight into how distinct cultures have different ideals for the heroic. A protagonist who appears admirable in Scandinavia can have values, traits, or skills that are perceived as less appealing, on average, to audiences in other regions of the world. Screenwriters and directors who want to import a story from a different culture must therefore consider how their main character should be adapted in order to m…
Nordic Noir’s Exemplary Microcosm: Promoting Core Design Principles for Group Efficacy
Nobel-winner Elinor Ostrom’s Core Design Principles for group efficacy are used by the Evolution Institute to explain the success of Nordic societies. These principles are offered as an evolutionary foundation for a new social paradigm at all levels, from the local to the global. This article argues that Scandinavian internalization of these universals inform the progenitor of the Nordic noir crime genre, the Martin Beck decalogy The Story of a C…
European movements for confluent love: Revealing romantic delusions with the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough and Comedy Italian Style
Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual Revolution of the mid-eighteenth century. The Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-nineteenth-century literary movement, used Darwinian perspectives to reveal romantic delusions and double standards. The movement’s insights …
Toward a dataist future: Tracing Scandinavian posthumanism in Real Humans
Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. As different regions explore posthumanist alternatives through fiction, they bring with them distinct traditions of thought. The Swedish TV series Real Humans (2012–2014) and its British remake, Humans (2015–2018), dramatize the chall…
Postmodern Queering of Family in 101 Reykjavik
In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could help liberate everyone from stale heteronormativity and dysfunctional socialites. The Icelandic queer dramedy 101 Reykjavík (2000) lets its slacker protagonist reinvent himself through the mentorship of his mother's Spanish partner. His renegotiation of…
A liberal stand-off with deplorables: Adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People from Nietzscheanism through Nazism to Neoliberalism
A pivotal question since the Enlightenment has been how to promote reason to the masses. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and its film adaptations across four countries and seven decades let us examine this discourse across time and geography. Ibsen offers Nietzschean, elitist radicalism to save the public sphere from ignorance. Ein Volksfeind (dir. Hans Steinhoff) insists that only the Nazi Party can straighten out the confused masses. A 19…
Literature
Literature
Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance
The Tristan legend is the quintessential love story of the Middle Ages. From the formative period of its courtly branch, the only extant complete version is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (1226). King Hákon of Norway commissioned this and other romances to convince his aristocratic warriors to give up the kinship society ethos of heroic love that directed them to rape their enemies’ women. Courtly love sacralized female consent, yet critics have strug…
Evolutionary Insights Into a Maladapted Viking in Gísla saga
Literature
Literature
Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
The myth of true, lifelong love promoted low divorce rates among farmers who depended on each other for survival. In the urban ecology after industrialization, it became increasingly clear that long-term monogamy goes against human nature. In the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-1800s literary movement, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and others clashed in a battle over modern mating morality. Each interpreted Darwin to fit their own ag…
Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm
Research Article| December 01 2021 Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm Mads Larsen Mads Larsen University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2021) 93 (4): 505–532. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.4.0505 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mads Larsen; Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democra…
Battleground of Humanisms: How Väinö Linna's Under the North Star United What Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism Tore Apart
In the contest between the three major modern political ideologies—liberalism, socialism, and fascism—the Nordic countries found a middle way with social democracy. For over four decades, Finland remained a class-divided anomaly after the failed socialist revolution in 1918 and fascist rebellion in the 1930s. Väinö Linna’s Under the North Star trilogy (1959–62), one of history’s most directly influential literary works, helped the Finns come to t…
Bookending the Enlightenment: Scandinavia’s first novel and the Anthropocene condemnation of its TV adaptation
Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741) was the European breakthrough for the Norwegian Enlightenment polymath Ludvig Holberg. The emerging novel format inspired Holberg to trust his readers to use their own rationality to decide on the contentious issues of their era. The intellectual contrarian had always been sceptical of his contemporaries’ ability to reason, but he died content that his writings had made a positive impact. Over two centuries…
Adapting to Urban Pro-Sociality in Hamsun’s Hunger
The rural-migrant protagonist in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (1890; Sult) fails to adapt to the urban environment because the moral algorithm that informs his collaborative choices is unfit for the city. He often responds poorly when overwhelmed by pride, shame, or other sensations that he struggles to make sense of. Such emotions are hypothesized to be neurocomputational adaptations crafted by natural selection to help us get ahead as collaborators. …
Memory as tyranny: A dataist argument for posthuman interconnectivity in Humans and Real Humans
Android fiction has connected memory to personhood in a variety of ways. The Swedish TV series Real Humans (2012–2014) and its British remake Humans (2015–2018) argue that lived experience is insufficient for making memories authentic. If experiences are to be more than data, they must be imprinted with affect or another subjectivizing force. For the humanoid robots themselves, such memories do not anchor their identity in the past, but in the ev…
Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler
Per Hellgren. Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler
Per Hellgren. Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. Pp. x + 255. How did a genre that began as overt Marxist agitation grow into a global phenomenon in which Swedish authors could sell books by the tens of
Adapting a Witch to Modern Beliefs and Values: Persecuting the Outsider through Trial, Stage, and Film
In 1590, after Norway’s most famous witch trial, Anne Pedersdotter was burned alive. Resource scarcity and religious competition transformed an old superstition into a witch craze to which Anne fell victim. Her story became a play in 1908 and a film in 1943. The two adaptations attempt to give Anne’s persecution more modern explanations. In the play Anne Pedersdotter, Anne has psychic powers that make her neighbors think she is a Satanic collabor…
Ofelas: Filming otherness in indigenous revitalization
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Ofelas: Filming otherness in indigenous revitalization
Adapting a Witch to Modern Beliefs and Values: Persecuting the Outsider through Trial, Stage, and Film
In 1590, after Norway’s most famous witch trial, Anne Pedersdotter was burned alive. Resource scarcity and religious competition transformed an old superstition into a witch craze to which Anne fell victim. Her story became a play in 1908 and a film in 1943. The two adaptations attempt to give Anne’s persecution more modern explanations. In the play Anne Pedersdotter, Anne has psychic powers that make her neighbors think she is a Satanic collabor…
Bookending the Enlightenment: Scandinavia’s first novel and the Anthropocene condemnation of its TV adaptation
Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741) was the European breakthrough for the Norwegian Enlightenment polymath Ludvig Holberg. The emerging novel format inspired Holberg to trust his readers to use their own rationality to decide on the contentious issues of their era. The intellectual contrarian had always been sceptical of his contemporaries’ ability to reason, but he died content that his writings had made a positive impact. Over two centuries…
Adapting to Urban Pro-Sociality in Hamsun’s Hunger
The rural-migrant protagonist in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (1890; Sult) fails to adapt to the urban environment because the moral algorithm that informs his collaborative choices is unfit for the city. He often responds poorly when overwhelmed by pride, shame, or other sensations that he struggles to make sense of. Such emotions are hypothesized to be neurocomputational adaptations crafted by natural selection to help us get ahead as collaborators. …
Memory as tyranny: A dataist argument for posthuman interconnectivity in Humans and Real Humans
Android fiction has connected memory to personhood in a variety of ways. The Swedish TV series Real Humans (2012–2014) and its British remake Humans (2015–2018) argue that lived experience is insufficient for making memories authentic. If experiences are to be more than data, they must be imprinted with affect or another subjectivizing force. For the humanoid robots themselves, such memories do not anchor their identity in the past, but in the ev…
Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler
Per Hellgren. Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler
Per Hellgren. Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. Pp. x + 255. How did a genre that began as overt Marxist agitation grow into a global phenomenon in which Swedish authors could sell books by the tens of
Evolutionary Insights Into a Maladapted Viking in Gísla saga
Literature
Literature
Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
The myth of true, lifelong love promoted low divorce rates among farmers who depended on each other for survival. In the urban ecology after industrialization, it became increasingly clear that long-term monogamy goes against human nature. In the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-1800s literary movement, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and others clashed in a battle over modern mating morality. Each interpreted Darwin to fit their own ag…
Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm
Research Article| December 01 2021 Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm Mads Larsen Mads Larsen University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2021) 93 (4): 505–532. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.4.0505 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mads Larsen; Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democra…
Battleground of Humanisms: How Väinö Linna's Under the North Star United What Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism Tore Apart
In the contest between the three major modern political ideologies—liberalism, socialism, and fascism—the Nordic countries found a middle way with social democracy. For over four decades, Finland remained a class-divided anomaly after the failed socialist revolution in 1918 and fascist rebellion in the 1930s. Väinö Linna’s Under the North Star trilogy (1959–62), one of history’s most directly influential literary works, helped the Finns come to t…
A liberal stand-off with deplorables: Adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People from Nietzscheanism through Nazism to Neoliberalism
A pivotal question since the Enlightenment has been how to promote reason to the masses. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and its film adaptations across four countries and seven decades let us examine this discourse across time and geography. Ibsen offers Nietzschean, elitist radicalism to save the public sphere from ignorance. Ein Volksfeind (dir. Hans Steinhoff) insists that only the Nazi Party can straighten out the confused masses. A 19…
Literature
Literature
Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance
The Tristan legend is the quintessential love story of the Middle Ages. From the formative period of its courtly branch, the only extant complete version is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (1226). King Hákon of Norway commissioned this and other romances to convince his aristocratic warriors to give up the kinship society ethos of heroic love that directed them to rape their enemies’ women. Courtly love sacralized female consent, yet critics have strug…
Americanizing the Scandinavian Super Underdog in Eighteen Film Remakes
transcultural film remakes can offer insight into how distinct cultures have different ideals for the heroic. A protagonist who appears admirable in Scandinavia can have values, traits, or skills that are perceived as less appealing, on average, to audiences in other regions of the world. Screenwriters and directors who want to import a story from a different culture must therefore consider how their main character should be adapted in order to m…
Nordic Noir’s Exemplary Microcosm: Promoting Core Design Principles for Group Efficacy
Nobel-winner Elinor Ostrom’s Core Design Principles for group efficacy are used by the Evolution Institute to explain the success of Nordic societies. These principles are offered as an evolutionary foundation for a new social paradigm at all levels, from the local to the global. This article argues that Scandinavian internalization of these universals inform the progenitor of the Nordic noir crime genre, the Martin Beck decalogy The Story of a C…
European movements for confluent love: Revealing romantic delusions with the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough and Comedy Italian Style
Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual Revolution of the mid-eighteenth century. The Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-nineteenth-century literary movement, used Darwinian perspectives to reveal romantic delusions and double standards. The movement’s insights …
Toward a dataist future: Tracing Scandinavian posthumanism in Real Humans
Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. As different regions explore posthumanist alternatives through fiction, they bring with them distinct traditions of thought. The Swedish TV series Real Humans (2012–2014) and its British remake, Humans (2015–2018), dramatize the chall…
Postmodern Queering of Family in 101 Reykjavik
In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could help liberate everyone from stale heteronormativity and dysfunctional socialites. The Icelandic queer dramedy 101 Reykjavík (2000) lets its slacker protagonist reinvent himself through the mentorship of his mother's Spanish partner. His renegotiation of…
Libertine Love as a Proto-Romantic Mating Ideology in Fredmans epistlar
An evolutionary approach to the Romantic Century offers insights into the era’s ideological diversity and progression of ideals. Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) makes for a particularly illuminating case study. He transformed drinking songs into world literature, sanctifying uncommitted sex and devaluing marriage. His magnus opus, Fredman’s Epistles (1790), made later critics praise him as Scandinavia’s greatest poet. His songs have been compare…
Toward individualistic reproduction: Solving the fertility crisis could require a further marginalization of men
≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world-with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control-followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men's utility to "free women" has been so diminished that solving t…
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