Category Archives: Papers & Talks

Negotiating the Future

By Steen | May 26, 2007

For the Negotiating the Future seminar, I’m in the workshop entitled “What is the future? The end of the present, a monster or just a metaphor?” The following is an attempt to synthesize our thoughts a bit.
Both of your pieces deal with how the future can be conceptualized as different from the present – not [...]

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Proposal: Space is the Place

By Steen | May 1, 2007

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey had a call for papers for a special theme issue on African American Studies. I sent them a proposal for an article on Sun Ra’s Space is the Place. The description of the proposal follows.
“You don’t exist in this society”: Sun Ra’s Space is the Place
I’m not real, [...]

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Article Submission: Nudity Unbound

By Steen | April 30, 2007

Philament has a call for papers on the subject of “Bound” and I have submitted an article on suicidegirls.com. My argument is to show that while the representation of nude women typically bind the sexuality of these same women to a male-dominated sexuality, it is possible to subvert this practice. In the case of suicidegirls.com, [...]

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Essay: Today Repeats the Future

By Steen | April 18, 2007

Stefanie Jenssen from Oslo University contacted my about submitting a piece for the conference Negotiating the Future at Oslo University. I sent her my piece entitled “Today Repeats the Future”, so we’ll see how it goes. I might post it here soon, as well.

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Article Submission: Pornstream

By Steen | April 11, 2007

A new magazine In Theory has been looking for submissions on popular culture, so I’ve submitted an article titled “Pornstream: XXX Celebrity Culture” which deals with how pornography has invaded mainstream culture, especially in the case of celebrity culture. I do a symptomatic reading of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders‘ book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits. We’ll see if [...]

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