Monthly Archives: May 2008

Ideological Fission: Cloverfield and Terrorism

By Steen | May 15, 2008

Inter-disciplinary.net and At the Interface holds a conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. I have had a paper accepted on Cloverfield and the evil of terrorism. The abstract is below.
Cloverfield’s monster is effective precisely because we never really see it, because it remains in our peripheral vision and seems [...]

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Tattoos in American Visual Culture, Mindy Fenske

By Steen | May 9, 2008

Tattoos have during the last few decades undergone a cultural transformation, from being a mark of deviance belonging to the lower social classes and something one should not “do to oneself”, to being relatively accepted in today’s society. This is not just as a passing fad, but also as representative of a broader change of [...]

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Written on the Body: Difference and Transgression

By Steen | May 2, 2008

My paper for the Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders conference was accepted today. The abstract is below.
Our bodies define a border between ourselves and the world around us. However we might feel about our body, it is what we present to the world. Victoria L. Blum in her book Flesh Wounds discusses how bodies [...]

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