Browsing by Author "Laustsen, Carsten Bagge"
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The collector's world
Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020)The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfectness, but primarily about ... -
"Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (Routledge Journals, 2017)The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always ... -
Terror as potentiality - the affective rhythms of the political
Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge (Routledge Journals, 2018)The paper addresses the ways in which the cultural, the affective and the political intersect, counter and/or feed upon one another in the context of contemporary terror. Initially, building upon Machiavelli and Hobbes, ...