T Skiveren
Biographic Data
| ID | 57554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Skiveren |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Skiveren |
| SIGNATURE | SKIVEREN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2221-1063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
In recent years, affective concerns have become increasingly central to debates in the environmental humanities. Adding to this conversation, this essay introduces the present symposium by developing the notion of sensorial tactics. With this concept, we’re referring to a deliberate organization of perceptual and affective responses that work in various ways to tackle current socioecological disasters. Engaging each contribution, the essay outlin…
The Doxa of Dignity
This essay questions the hegemony of "dignity" in contemporary bioethical debates about good deaths. It does so by exploring how cultural ideals organize the affective setting of death in David Rieff's memoir, Swimming in a Sea of Death (2008), and Maria Gerhardt's novel, Transfer Window [ Transfervindue ] (2019/2017). In depicting the emotional turmoil of terminal cancer, these pathographies reveal that the very ideals adopted to ensure a sense …
Response 1
Solarpunk fiction is speculative. But it is speculative in a double sense. It is speculative, of course, because it speculates about the future. Bracketing the status quo, it conjures up scenarios of habitable worlds in an effort to image a future beyond our current socioecological disasters. But solarpunk fiction is also speculative because the genre itself primarily exists as an object of speculation in the solarpunk community.1 As a genre labe…
New Materialism and the Eco-Marxist Challenge
In recent years, the critical vocabulary of the environmental humanities has shifted. After a decade burgeoning with new materialist explorations of intra-active entanglements and nonhuman vitalities, scholars are today becoming increasingly interested in the environmental effects of capitalism, its ecological rifts, fossil economy, and omnipresent wastescapes. Driving this shift is a reinvigoration of eco-Marxist thinking, which not only offers …
Neoliberal Misfits
In recent years, the concept of debility has gained a lot of attention. In critical theory and in the critical medical humanities, the concept has come to refer specifically to the general ill-health of ordinary lives under neoliberal capitalism; as such, it has triggered a surge of interest in large-scale affective assemblages that incapacitate multitudes of bodies. This article proposes neoliberal misfit as a conceptual tool to remedy the disso…
Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader
This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and postcritique. It argues that an attachment to "lay reading" not only fuels the current emergence of countertrends to critical methodologies but also threatens the survival of such postcritical projects. The essay does so by demonstrating, first, how this attachment counterworks an elitist tendency in critical scholarship to regard such modes of reading-and those…
Fictionality in New Materialism
Throughout the last decade, calls for a return to materiality have reverberated within the humanities and social sciences. Few, however, have noticed that this return has also entailed a return to fiction, as the new theoretical writings on matter regularly include elements of storytelling, fabulation or other genres of invention. This article asks why this alliance between new materialism and fiction has come about: Why do scholars united by a c…
New Materialism's Second Phase
New Materialism's Second Phase Tobias Skiveren (bio) Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $25.95 cloth. Language matters. Discourse matters. Culture matters. There is an important sense in which the only thing that does not seem to matter anymore is matter. —Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity," 2003 Almost twenty years have passed since Karen Barad launched her n…
Anoreksi og agens
Cultural studies and gender studies hold long-standing traditions for studying people with eating disorders as either passive objects subjected to misogynist discourses or subversive agents that negotiate societal norms. In both cases, agency is primarily investigated as a phenomenon that unfolds between the anorectic individual and the surrounding society. In contrast, this article explores how the question of agency also unfolds within the anor…
Disability and Protheses
which disability is represented and understood in mainstream and alternative cultures have come to change considerably. Prostheses are, as Luna Dolezal writes, becoming a site of "potent political possibilities" for destabilizing and transforming "the very category of disability" (Dolezal 2017, 65)
Almanac
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Den sociale vending = velfærdsskepsis
Anmeldelse af Tue Andersen Nexø: Vidnesbyrd fra velfærdsstaten - Den sociale vending i ny dansk litteratur. Arena, København, 2016
Fictionality in New Materialism
Throughout the last decade, calls for a return to materiality have reverberated within the humanities and social sciences. Few, however, have noticed that this return has also entailed a return to fiction, as the new theoretical writings on matter regularly include elements of storytelling, fabulation or other genres of invention. This article asks why this alliance between new materialism and fiction has come about: Why do scholars united by a c…
Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader
This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and postcritique. It argues that an attachment to "lay reading" not only fuels the current emergence of countertrends to critical methodologies but also threatens the survival of such postcritical projects. The essay does so by demonstrating, first, how this attachment counterworks an elitist tendency in critical scholarship to regard such modes of reading-and those…
Den sociale vending = velfærdsskepsis
Anmeldelse af Tue Andersen Nexø: Vidnesbyrd fra velfærdsstaten - Den sociale vending i ny dansk litteratur. Arena, København, 2016
Almanac
.
New Materialism's Second Phase
New Materialism's Second Phase Tobias Skiveren (bio) Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $25.95 cloth. Language matters. Discourse matters. Culture matters. There is an important sense in which the only thing that does not seem to matter anymore is matter. —Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity," 2003 Almost twenty years have passed since Karen Barad launched her n…
Anoreksi og agens
Cultural studies and gender studies hold long-standing traditions for studying people with eating disorders as either passive objects subjected to misogynist discourses or subversive agents that negotiate societal norms. In both cases, agency is primarily investigated as a phenomenon that unfolds between the anorectic individual and the surrounding society. In contrast, this article explores how the question of agency also unfolds within the anor…
Disability and Protheses
which disability is represented and understood in mainstream and alternative cultures have come to change considerably. Prostheses are, as Luna Dolezal writes, becoming a site of "potent political possibilities" for destabilizing and transforming "the very category of disability" (Dolezal 2017, 65)
Neoliberal Misfits
In recent years, the concept of debility has gained a lot of attention. In critical theory and in the critical medical humanities, the concept has come to refer specifically to the general ill-health of ordinary lives under neoliberal capitalism; as such, it has triggered a surge of interest in large-scale affective assemblages that incapacitate multitudes of bodies. This article proposes neoliberal misfit as a conceptual tool to remedy the disso…
Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader
This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and postcritique. It argues that an attachment to "lay reading" not only fuels the current emergence of countertrends to critical methodologies but also threatens the survival of such postcritical projects. The essay does so by demonstrating, first, how this attachment counterworks an elitist tendency in critical scholarship to regard such modes of reading-and those…
Fictionality in New Materialism
Throughout the last decade, calls for a return to materiality have reverberated within the humanities and social sciences. Few, however, have noticed that this return has also entailed a return to fiction, as the new theoretical writings on matter regularly include elements of storytelling, fabulation or other genres of invention. This article asks why this alliance between new materialism and fiction has come about: Why do scholars united by a c…
New Materialism and the Eco-Marxist Challenge
In recent years, the critical vocabulary of the environmental humanities has shifted. After a decade burgeoning with new materialist explorations of intra-active entanglements and nonhuman vitalities, scholars are today becoming increasingly interested in the environmental effects of capitalism, its ecological rifts, fossil economy, and omnipresent wastescapes. Driving this shift is a reinvigoration of eco-Marxist thinking, which not only offers …
The Doxa of Dignity
This essay questions the hegemony of "dignity" in contemporary bioethical debates about good deaths. It does so by exploring how cultural ideals organize the affective setting of death in David Rieff's memoir, Swimming in a Sea of Death (2008), and Maria Gerhardt's novel, Transfer Window [ Transfervindue ] (2019/2017). In depicting the emotional turmoil of terminal cancer, these pathographies reveal that the very ideals adopted to ensure a sense …
Response 1
Solarpunk fiction is speculative. But it is speculative in a double sense. It is speculative, of course, because it speculates about the future. Bracketing the status quo, it conjures up scenarios of habitable worlds in an effort to image a future beyond our current socioecological disasters. But solarpunk fiction is also speculative because the genre itself primarily exists as an object of speculation in the solarpunk community.1 As a genre labe…
Introduction
In recent years, affective concerns have become increasingly central to debates in the environmental humanities. Adding to this conversation, this essay introduces the present symposium by developing the notion of sensorial tactics. With this concept, we’re referring to a deliberate organization of perceptual and affective responses that work in various ways to tackle current socioecological disasters. Engaging each contribution, the essay outlin…
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