Tankebanen forlag

05/10/2023

Jon Fosse wins the Nobel. Read poetry by him in translation here:

https://www.tankebanen.no/torgeirfjeld/page.php?id=poetry

14/06/2023

Chris Norris’s new volume of music poems, A Listener, is out on utopos publishing. The result of a lifetime of highly active involvement with music these poems treat composers from Purcell to Philip Glass, and themes such as the tritone, or ‘devil in music’. Spanning ten years of intensive creativity these poems mark Norris’s sustained attempt to assert a more expansive and challenging conception of poetry’s present-day prospects. Get it from https://utopos.shop/

28/11/2022

Publishing is not a crime. Free Julian Assange.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/28/media-groups-urge-us-drop-julian-assange-charges

First outlets to publish WikiLeaks material, including the Guardian, come together to oppose prosecution

11/10/2022

Forfatteren Tore Renberg har publisert en veldig fin tekst på nrk.no i anledning verdensdagen for psykisk helse: Vi glemmer for lett at det å vokse opp med foreldre som er syke kan være en stor belastning for barna. Når det i tillegg, som i Renbergs tilfelle, oppstår situasjoner som ikke bare oppleves som truende, men som er direkte farlige for barna forstår vi bedre hvordan mange fortsetter å måtte bearbeide sårene fra en krevende barndom i voksen alder.

Hei, jeg heter Tore. Blir du med? Ut? I lyset igjen?

13/09/2022

"A silent bell disguising a singular voice. A blurred new day
Breaks uncrowned on remote peaks and public parks, and
Everything turns on these luminous petals and deep roots,
This lily that thrives between spire and tree, whose brightness
Holds and glows beyond the life and border of its bloom."

Simon Armitage, UK's Poet Laureate, on the occasion of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

22/07/2022

Christopher Norris, a former Philosophy Professor at Cardiff, is coming out with a new volume of poetry, AFTER RILKE, on our publisher. The book is a series of translations, parodies, and other kinds of responses to Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous originals (1907-1908). Norris’s versions are moving, funny and enlightening.

List price (paperback): €24.
Preorder price: €20. DM or email us before August 1st.

Image: “Last evening (B)” by Christopher Norris (forthcoming)

utopos.shop/

Happy reading! 😍

21/07/2022

We got a new address! 🏠

Some of our readers have experienced difficulties when trying to navigate to our catalogue. Therefore, we decided to get a new address, so that you can reach us more easily:

www.utopos.shop/

Also: check out Chris Norris's forthcoming volume of poetry, After Rilke. Christopher Norris, a former Philosophy Professor, has written a series of translations, parodies, and other kinds of responses to Rilke's famous originals. Norris's versions are variously moving, funny and enlightening.

Softbound: €24 (list price)
Preorder price (softbound): €20

To preorder DM or email us before August 1st. Happy reading! 😍

Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts | ereignis.no/

20/05/2022

CfP Inscriptions 6, n1: Access and the “danger” of modern technology.

Technology tends to be regarded as a neutral tool that is only made meaningful or indeed efficient through use. Inscriptions, an international journal of contemporary thinking on art, philosophy, and psycho-analysis, invites contributions to our upcoming special issue. Key questions:

How are open access technologies generative of/generated by ideals such as justice and equality?

How can technological innovations such as Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence contribute to develop our understanding of Martin Heidegger’s notion of technological enframing (Gestell)?

Wolfgang Schirmacher suggests that Heidegger’s approach reduces all technicity to technologies of war. Against this he offers technologies of truth. How can technological redefinitions, such as Schirmacher’s, enable us to move beyond Heidegger’s “danger” of modern technology and prepare the ground for a cosmic access that is open?

Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2022. Full manuscripts due 15 October 2022. For a full overview of our policies for submission, review, and publication, please visit our website: https://inscriptions.tankebanen.no/

Image by Jonathan Bowers.

10/05/2022

Tell us your opinion and get a book for free! We’d love to hear your opinion about learning. Take our five-minute survey and get your own free copy of our brand new book Introducing Ereignis: philosophy, technology, way of life by Torgeir Fjeld and Stefan Chazbijewicz with Wolfgang Schirmacher.

More info: https://bit.ly/3IY5iWt

25/04/2022

19/04/2022

“Leave just that room for hope, however slight,
And see new rifts emerging in the clair-
Obscur of scenes sun-darkened at the height
Where reason sleeps through history’s nightmare.”

From Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia by Christopher Norris. Get it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xDdklu

Hear Chris read from the book and discuss his poetry on the Ereignis Podcast: https://podcast.ereignis.no/

05/04/2022

Final CfP Inscriptions 5, n2: Open Issue. Full manuscripts due 15 April 2022. 😀 Inscriptions is an international, interdisciplinary double-blind peer-reviewed that publishes contemporary thinking on , and . We are looking for and scholarly that are well structured, have a convincing argument and form, follow academic convention, and are appropriately sourced. Generally academic essays should be 3,000 to 4,500 words. More information: https://inscriptions.tankebanen.no/

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20/12/2021

Here's a holiday present to us all: Inscriptions is now included in the important ErihPlus reference index. See the listing here: http://ow.ly/yB0V50HfjY2

Season's greetings from the editors @ Inscriptions 😄

09/12/2021

“Where reason sleeps through history’s nightmare”
From Christopher Norris, Damaged Life

Join us this afternoon @ 18h00 GMT for a talk with Chris Norris on the occasion of his new volume of formal verse, Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia. Norris, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, is the author of many books on philosophy, literary theory, music, and the history of ideas. Norris’s topic-based verse sequence makes a case for the continuing pertinence of Critical Theory and for the power of poetry to engage and re-articulate that project in a range of creative-exploratory ways.

Sign up for this event at http://ow.ly/Vajg50H6Pmc

02/12/2021

Join us for an online talk with Christopher Norris on December 9th @ 18h00 UK time. Norris’s new book Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia is a collection of topic-based verse sequences that makes a case for the continuing pertinence of Critical Theory and for the power of poetry to engage and re-articulate that project in a range of creative-exploratory ways. Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/2s5ceke4

04/11/2021

Publisher seeks authors. Our rules of the game: Think the outside-place [utopos] as the absurd (Alain Badiou). Scholarship, fiction, poetry. All our publications are reviewed by independent consultants. No publication fees. Submit your manuscript: https://tankebanen.no/

24/06/2021

Watch Jørgen Veisland’s keynote address to the inaugural Ereignis Conference, Event and Becoming, on the Ereignis YouTube channel. Veisland’s talk, “The Appropriation of Being. Dismantling totalitarianism in Unto Madness, Unto Death by Kirsten Thorup,” argues that Thorup’s novel discloses a metaphysical fallacy of totalitarianism in which time itself is sought fixed in an eternal future. Veisland is Professor of American and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. 42 mins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1hv0KZjQI

08/06/2021

We are delighted to announce that poet and professor Chris Norris, expert on contemporary European philosophy, has agreed to read his poem “The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alan Badiou” at the closing of the Event and Becoming conference on June 11 at approx. 16h30 CET/15h30 BST.

There are very few seats left at this online-only event. To attend Chris’ reading or to join in our inaugural Ereignis conference get your ticket by Thursday June 10 15h00 BST on http://ow.ly/yQCC50F5kyX. More information is available from our conference website: https://conference.ereignis.no/.

Chris says that the poem is “a bit didactic, but it is meant to get Badiou’s points across clearly.” The poem first appeared in The Trouble with Monsters, Chris Norris’ book of political polemics. His latest collection, Hedgehogs, is available from utopos publishing: http://ow.ly/TP6h50F5kzH.

13/05/2021

Few tickets left!

Does desire produce real or imaginary objects? On 11 June, 2021 Inscriptions, journal for contemporary thinking on , and the arts, and the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts host and , the inaugural Ereignis , where Mehdi Parsa will discuss Stoic , psychosynthesis, and in and . In the latest issue of the Ereignis Podcast Parsa explains how desire not only produces fantasies but also reality. Read the full conference programme and sign up at https://conference.ereignis.no/.

27/04/2021

CfP Inscriptions 5, n1: Being and Event. Is the historical event described in Heidegger’s philosophy is something we can endeavour to bring about, or will we have to wait for it to be handed down to us? Inscriptions, an international journal of contemporary thinking on art, philosophy, and psycho-analysis, invites contributions to our upcoming issue on Being and Event (vol. 5, no. 1). We are looking for well-crafted and skilfully written scholarly essays that engage our theme and/or mandate. Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2021. Full manuscripts due 15 October 2021. For a full overview of our policies for submission, review, and publication, please visit our website: https://inscriptions.tankebanen.no/

Image: “Non-Human-Touch” by Surabhi Saraf © 2020.

13/04/2021

CfP: Submit your abstract by April 15 to be included in our free online conference Being and Event. 😊 How do events puncture the smooth flow of normality, and what role does our desire play in our understanding of events? These are key questions for this conference, to be held on June 11. Keynotes by Prof. James Bahoh (on Heidegger’s event and Er-gründung, or ‘fathoming the ground’), Prof. Jørgen Veisland (on Being, totalitarianism and Kirsten Thorup), and Dr. Mehdi Parsa (on ethics, psychosynthesis, and desire). As a preamble to the conference listen to the latest issue of the Ereignis Podcast, where Mehdi Parsa speaks about Being and Event in Deleuze.

More info: https://ereignis.no/School/2021conference.html

30/03/2021

Tankebanen forlag/utopos publishing: We are looking for manuscripts – poetry, fiction, academic texts – to publish. To find out more visit our website: https://utopos.tankebanen.no/

16/03/2021

In Hedgehogs, a collection of philosophical poetry by Christopher Norris, the thought of Jacques Derrida is allowed to rub up against formal verse of a variously witty, ironic, reflective, discursive, and narrative character. Derrida became associated with the movement known as deconstruction, and Norris was one of its chief elucidators as a prolific and respected academic. In these poems Norris exhibits a different set of skills: these are texts that live very much in and through their singular resources of linguistic inventiveness. Altogether these poems make a notable contribution to the currently fast-growing field of creative criticism.

Available from utopos publishing in print and in electronic formats.

https://utopos.tankebanen.no/

02/03/2021

Laus Strandby Nielsen’s The Black Wall (Den sorte væg) is a collection of subtle poems, embracing a natural musical rhythm without a schematic meter and rhyme. For the first time in the English language this translation of The Black Wall offers to the reader a still picture which ultimately gives way to action and change. Jørgen Veisland, professor of American and Danish literature at the University of Gdańsk, have given these intensely beautiful poems a precise, stringent form. Veisland’s translations are accessible, not making use of esoteric vocabulary or requiring specialist knowledge; and yet they are profoundly rich in potential. These are poems that can be read all at once, or one at the time, such as one would with a good cup of tea.

Laus Strandby Nielsen: The Black Wall
Translated by Jørgen Veisland
Available as e-book from utopos publishing
E-book €17.99
https://utopos.tankebanen.no/

29/01/2021

Inscriptions 4, n1: Artificial life is out 🙄

Inscriptions is pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue. Vol. 4, no. 1 is now live on https://inscriptions.tankebanen.no/ and features an outstanding line-up of submissions, including a new essay by Wolfgang Schirmacher.

How do we live well and ethically in our present technological fix? This is the key question when we interrogate Socrates’ technē, a posthuman theory for computational objects, and how to live and work in a technological-scientific world order. Guest editor Marjorie Vecchio has curated conceptual, performance-based, and absurdist works by Grace Weir, Surabhi Saraf, and Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick.