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 […]
By Steen | December 15, 2006
Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.
By Steen | November 6, 2006
Christoffer Boe’s second film, Allegro also deals with love and the problems that sometimes follow. It is not a typical romance film - far from it - but instead attempts to tackle those well-known issues in a different, more abstract or symbolic style.
Employing the device of the alien has become a favoured tactic of many, but in 1972 it was an unusual move when semi-unknown musician David Bowie did it. Creating a concept album focussing on an alien visitor known as Ziggy Stardust, Bowie also took on the persona of this Ziggy Stardust conflating any sense of […]
A piece from my dissertation, I’m briefly discussing representational issues in Kathryn Kramer’s A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space. I’m trying to establish its connection the the slipstream “movement” as Bruce Sterling began defining.
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