{"title":"Tragedie og tilsynekomst","authors":"Anne Marie Paahus","doi":"10.7146/kok.v49i131.127679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v49i131.127679","url":null,"abstract":"Anmeldelse af: \u0000Cecilia Sjöholm \u0000Att se saker med Arendt – konst, estetik, politik \u0000Daidalos, 2020, 247 sider \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122393884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Det syge USA","authors":"Marianne Kongerslev, Clara Juncker","doi":"10.7146/kok.v49i131.127675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v49i131.127675","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledging the significance of the COVID-19 pandemic as an exacerbating factor for precarious US communities, this article reads Tony Kushner’s critically acclaimed play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1992-95) and Michael Henson’s collection of short stories Maggie Boylan (2015) alongside Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor), Jasbir Puar (The Right to Maim) and Lauren Berlant (“Slow Death”). The play and the short story collection represent examples of critiques of a deep-rooted disorder that characterizes the precaritizing American social and political system. From the severely mishandled AIDS crisis in Reagan’s conservative United States to the equally disastrous management of the opioid and meth epidemics in the 21st century, American society and politicians are failing their citizens, a failure reflected in and critiqued by literary texts. Whereas Angels in America is an overtly political drama, in which marginalized people come together to respond to political erasure and violence with imaginative countercultural utopianism, Maggie Boylan traces the gradual decay and corruption of a contemporary American community, functioning as a microcosm of the Unites States as a whole. This society is plagued by several crippling “epidemics” and “crises” that leave bodies broken and communities in tatters. Despite glimmers of hope, Kushner and Henson paint a grim picture of a sickness at the core of American society.","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127144671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vi bygger for livet","authors":"Runa Johannessen, Isak Winkel Holm","doi":"10.7146/kok.v49i131.127629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v49i131.127629","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the “medicalization” of contemporary Danish hospital architecture. In the modern age, architecture and spatial design have been mobilized as remedies to further the health of the individual patient and of the population in general. In order to understand the present type of medicalization – as opposed to the early modern and classical modern types – we suggest a distinction between two kinds of biopolitics, in Michel Foucault’s sense of this term, respectively a biopolitics of bodies and a biopolitics of feelings. If the original medicalization was a somatic biopolitics, the contemporary medicalization could be described as an affective biopolitics, we claim. We focus on the ongoing boom in the construction of new hospitals in Denmark, discussing as empirical cases a planned hospital in Northern Zealand and a “multisensorial” delivery room in Herning, a Danish provincial town.","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121932621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stranden hos Elena Ferrante","authors":"Marius Warholm Haugen","doi":"10.7146/kok.v48i130.123640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v48i130.123640","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131233849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mellom vrak og strand","authors":"Sarah Dahle Hermanstad","doi":"10.7146/kok.v48i130.123641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v48i130.123641","url":null,"abstract":"Ever since Arnold van Gennep introduced the concept of liminality in 1909, it has been used in a huge variety of different contexts and on different subjects. The beach has particularly been related to the idea of a liminal zone in the landscape, a place betwixt and between, concerning land and sea, but also on the border of human conduct and behavior. In this article the concept of liminality has been used to understand the role of shipwrecks and salvaging activities, among the inhabitants of the Norwegian islands of Hitra and Froya during the 18th and 19th centuries. \u0000Liminality can be useful in understanding how shipwrecks became a part of a coastal landscape shaped by unpredictable forces. Not only the ship, but the salvagers and the beach themselves all went through a transformation: a liminal experience. These experiences could be spontaneous or devised, something that happened to you or something you did to yourself, but either way salvaging would become the result of liminal experiences in a liminal landscape. The shipwreck was the token of a way of living in an unpredictable environment. Shipwrecks could become a viable recourse through legal salvaging, or through the right of wreck on the foreshore, which constituted a separate area of the beach. The deadly force of nature that transformed ships to wrecks, was also the same life-bringing force that made life possible. The liminal and the unpredictable was in other words the very foundation of the coastal community.","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125291262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Den norske litterære stranden","authors":"Christopher Messelt","doi":"10.7146/kok.v48i130.123642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v48i130.123642","url":null,"abstract":"After the installment of recreational seaside resorts in England in the 18th and 19th century, the beach soon manifests as a modern version of the literary topos locus amoenus. A similar following is seen in Norway in the first half of the 20th century, where the beach in the novel is expressed as a place for recreation, erotic adventures and bathing in the sea and under the sun. \u0000Having this development as a backdrop, I analyze excerpts from three contemporary Norwegian novels. With attention to an increasing income of waste and the growth of private housebuilding, the novels express aspects of the more negative sides of what initially made the beach a locus amoenus. But this is not unambiguously. The beach is also a good place. \u0000The article shows that even in a time span of nearly a hundred years, literature bear witness to and articulates how beaches’ identities and the use of them is dependent on a given times political, economic, ideologic and cultural influences, which means that how the beach will be characterized in the future are being negotiated as we speak.","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"67 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120848491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}