Category Archives: Theory

FOAW

By Steen | December 16, 2007

This blog is finally back, after far too long a hiatus. I want to follow up on a recommendation given to me by my once-collegue Camelia Elias; why share my thoughts freely here on my blog? I once wrote about why I blog, and some answers can be found there. However, there is another reason [...]

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Subject and Ideology

By Steen | July 12, 2007

Louis Althusser, in his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (which is available online here), argues for an interconnection between the subject and ideology. It is also here that he develops his basic argument for interpellation. The following is a brief discussion of this, but I’m not trying to be particularly innovative or say anything [...]

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Genre and Audience

By Steen | December 2, 2006

One aspect of genre that I have dealt less with, is the relationship between genre works and the genre audience. Not just as a matter of reception, but also as a matter of purpose for the audience. Why read a specific genre? What purpose does a genre fulfill for the reader, especially when we take [...]

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Genre as a Space of Possibles

By Steen | November 30, 2006

The first snippet from my preparation for my dissertation defense, I here investigate some of the potential worth of combining Genette’s concept of transtextuality with that of Bourdieu’s space of possibles.
One of the problems when working with genre, is how to draw up a boundary not just for which works belong within the genre, but [...]

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Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, TechnoLogics

By Steen | July 17, 2006

A few quotes from Kochar-Lindgren’s excellent book on technologics, cyborgs and the posthuman. The book is challenging, but well-worth the read.

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