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Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of Visual Culture and has worked extensively on the relation between transgressive forms of visuality and ethics. He holds a PhD in American Studies (2003), and became a full professor of Visual Culture at the University of Stavanger in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013 he was Principal Investigator of Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image, a research project sponsored by the Trond Mohn Foundation (formerly the Bergen Research Foundation). In 2010 he launched the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture with Øyvind Vågnes. Grønstad is the recipient of two Fulbright grants (1998-99 & 2017-18) and has been a visiting professor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000, 2001 & 2003), the University of Amsterdam (2005, 2013), and the University of California-Berkeley (2006-07, 2011, 2013 & 2017-18). He has published 12 books and over 60 scholarly articles. His most recent monographs are Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (Palgrave, 2020) and Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State. In 2022, he co-edited, with Lene Johannessen, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield).

Most recent publications:

Microdystopias

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity

Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

Film and the Ethical Imagination

Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight

Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

Grønstad has contributed a range of media texts, interviews and guest lectures for the media and the public.

 

Latest:

Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme 

Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket

Ways of Seeing TV, episode 6 (31. oktober 2020).

Johnny Cash International - digitalt arangement (Fulbright Norway, 27. oktober 2020).

"Har vi forstått hva "Ways of Seeing" egentlig handler om?" (Aftenposten, 25. september 2020).

"Hva er problemet?" (Klassekampen, 1. september 2020).

Grønstad teaches courses and supervises projects in cinema and television studies, visual and popular culture, and American Studies. He is often involved in courses such as MEVI103: Media Aesthetics - Interpretation and Analysis, MEVI223: Media Aesthetics - History and Theory, and MEVI303: Media Aesthetics. 

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2022). Screening absence. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 108-114.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Gestures of Seeing. Objektiv. Tidskrift for kamerabasert kunst. 8-11.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin and the Aesthetics of Ethical Intimacy". Film Criticism. 22-37.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Is there a transmedial dispositif? : aesthetic epistemes and the question of disciplinarity. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 32-49.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Ekphrasis refigured: writing seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved. Mosaic. 33-48.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Is There a Transmedial Dispositif? Aesthetic Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity.". The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 32-49.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 106-112.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Downcast eyes: Michael Haneke and the cinema of intrusion. Nordicom Review. 133-144.
  • Show author(s) (2008). 'No One Goes to the Movies Anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era. Kinema. A journal for film and audiovisual media. 5-16.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Teljekantar og Teljefantar: Om Forsking, Formidling og den Tospråklege Fordringa". Syn og Segn. 62-77.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut.". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 237-249.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion". Nordicom Review. 133-144.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Disiplin og Purisme: Eit Essay om Transmedial Kultur. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 227-243.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Disiplin og Purisme: Eit essay om transmedial kultur". Norsk Medietidsskrift. 227-247.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Denis Johnson's postmodern Lazarus: Transforming faith in 'Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'. American Studies in Scandinavia. 66-77.
  • Show author(s) (2006). An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. Image [&] Narrative.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Abject Desire: Anatomie de l'enfer and the unwatchable. Studies in French Cinema. 161-169.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Handsome Family and the Topographical Uncanny. Chapter & Verse.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Tiresijin pogled: Joyce, Rossellini iikonologija mrtvih. Ljetopis: Croatian Film Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Om Minnet, Historia, Gløymsla: Godards Eloge de l'amour. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 34-46.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. Estragon. 9-15.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 121-136.
  • Show author(s) (2005). "Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (II)". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 65-79.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (1). American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 201-217.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. The Film Journal. 10.
  • Show author(s) (2003). One-Dimensional Men: Fight Club and the Poetics of the Body. Film Criticism. 1-23.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 385-409.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gathering at the River: Ford, Peckinpah and the Failure of the Communal. American Studies in Scandinavia. 51-67.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 233-248.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. www.Film-Philosophy.com.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Fortolkningens Hegemoni: Om Filmkritikkens Usynliggjøring av Estetikken. Z filmtidsskrift. 30-37.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Back to Bazin?: Filmicity in the Age of the Digital Image. Popular Culture Review. 11-23.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 212-227.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Topographies of Defeat: Masculinity and Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner. Kinema. A journal for film and audiovisual media. 33-48.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Straitjacketing the Image: Illocutionary Writing and the Obstruction of Cine-Semiosis in Hawks' Scarface. Redoubt. 109-116.
  • Show author(s) (1999). Tid, Bevegelse og Narrasjon i Film. Bordwells Neoformalisme i Lys av Deleuzes Cinesofi. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 105-118.
  • Show author(s) (1999). "Tid, bevegelse og narrasjon. Bordwells neoformalisme i lys av Deleuzes cinesofi". REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 105-118.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2024). Aesthetics, Free Speech and the Neoliberal Imaginary.
  • Show author(s) (2024). "On Politics and Figuration".
  • Show author(s) (2023). Sustainable Utopias.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Plenary Lecture: "On the Persistence of Murray Bookchin’s Eco-Philosophy".
  • Show author(s) (2023). Micro-utopias II - co-organizer.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Convener and chair for guest lecture by Elly McCausland: "'Have They Come to Take Me Away?' Madness, Midnights, and the Feminist Antiheroism of Taylor Swift.".
  • Show author(s) (2023). Chair of the panel "Animation and the Limits of Care".
  • Show author(s) (2023). "Toward an Ethics of Inconvenience: Murray Bookchin's Eco-Philosophy".
  • Show author(s) (2023). "Of Time and the River: Heather McEntire's Eno Axis".
  • Show author(s) (2022). Rhythm in Moving Image Media.
  • Show author(s) (2022). On the Concept of Opacity.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Legal Aesthetics: The Case of Ways of Seeing.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Labor, Self, and Memory in Dan Erickson's Severance.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Komitémedlem og opponent på Jon Inge Faldalen doktoravhandling "Stillmoving.".
  • Show author(s) (2022). Elemental Engagements: Art and/as Epistemic Media - Chair and Respondent.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Confederalist Micro-utopias: From Murray Bookchin to Rojava.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The River in Reverse.
  • Show author(s) (2021). On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Microdystopias.
  • Show author(s) (2021). "White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence".
  • Show author(s) (2021). "Refleksjoner rundt 03.08.38".
  • Show author(s) (2020). Thoughts on running a peer-reviewed journal.
  • Show author(s) (2020). A Conversation with Fresh Eye about Visual Culture in Europe.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Respondent to "Political Role of New Media in Relation to American Literature and Culture" and to "The Importance of Global Digital Literacy".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Moderator for keynote by Lisa Parks, on "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mediation, Ethics, and Opacity.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Main organizer for the conference Monuments: The 26th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies Conference.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Main organizer and chair of the seminar "The Ethics of Surveillance".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Keynote Address: "Sound and Image Between Narrative and Opacity".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Chair, keynote by Lisa Parks: "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Chair for the panel "Monuments in Popular Culture.".
  • Show author(s) (2019). Chair for panelet "Mediating Opacity in Visual Culture".
  • Show author(s) (2019). "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State".
  • Show author(s) (2018). Ruben Östlund and the Cinema of Vulnerability.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Memory, Art, and Ethics in the Work of John Akomfrah.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Cosmopolitanism and the Right to Opacity.
  • Show author(s) (2018). A Bibliography of Machine Vision.
  • Show author(s) (2018). 'Everything was Stories:' The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "On Visuality and Ethics".
  • Show author(s) (2017). Film og den Etiske Imaginasjon.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Figuring Opacity.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Angelopoulos, Akomfrah and "The Elsewhere of the Image.".
  • Show author(s) (2017). "Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic".
  • Show author(s) (2017). "A New Ethics For Biovisual Screens".
  • Show author(s) (2016). Toward an Aesthetics of Opacity.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Ernie Gehr and the Aesthetic Imaginary.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Cinema's Gestural Connectivities.
  • Show author(s) (2016). "The Virtues of Opacity in a World Without Shadows".
  • Show author(s) (2016). "Remediation, Ethics, and the Transaesthetic".
  • Show author(s) (2015). Organizer & chair for the symposium "Contested Spaces".
  • Show author(s) (2015). Leviathan and the Ecological Screen.
  • Show author(s) (2015). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Archival Migrations: The Organic Image in John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "The Ethics of Transgression".
  • Show author(s) (2015). "The Aesthetic Imaginary: Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max".
  • Show author(s) (2015). "'The Honey of the Invisible:' Experimental Documentary and the Ethics of Memory".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Towards an Ethics of Distortion: Post-human Visuality in Leviathan".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "The Organic Image in Nostalgia For the Light and The Nine Muses".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Here is a Picture of no Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "'Every Form is a Face looking at us:' The Ethical Encounter in Kiarostami's Shirin".
  • Show author(s) (2013). The Nomadikon Lecture Series 8-11. Organizer and respondent.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Thinking Disciplinarity in an Age of Transmediality".
  • Show author(s) (2013). "The Two Disciplines, Cinema Studies and Art History," Round table: Moving Images or Moving Theory? The Role of Film Studies in Creating Social Agenda for Visual Culture.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Temporality, Presence, and Slow Cinema".
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Precarities Material and Conceptual".
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Images Opaque and Precarious: On Ernie Gehr and the Boundaries of Discernibility".
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Broken Materialities, or Three Forms of Opacity".
  • Show author(s) (2012). Moderator for TBLRs forskerskoleseminar "On Jacques Rancière.".
  • Show author(s) (2012). First opponent for Lise Majgaard Mortensens Ph.D thesis "Towards a Revival of Representation: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Novel at the End of Postmodernism".
  • Show author(s) (2012). Deltager og kommentator.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Arrangør av The 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Spaces, Images within Images.
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Taxonomies of Violence.".
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Notes on the Power of the Precarious Aesthetic".
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Enfolded By Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage".
  • Show author(s) (2011). Words of Welcome.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Writing Seeing 1: Transaesthetic Resonances".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Writing Seeing (1): Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega.".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Words of Welcome".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Entropic Cinema: The Case of Antichrist/Irréversible.".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "A Cinema of Gestures: Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "'Clear-eyed visions of the Particular:' Transaesthetic Resonances in Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Don DeLillo's Point Omega.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). Presentasjon av Nomadikon for studenter på Visuell Kultur-Verksted, Københavns Universitet.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Panel discussion on "Creativity and Mediation from Husserl to Whitehead and Back.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). Medarrangør av "Between the Aesthetical and the Political".
  • Show author(s) (2010). Deltagelse uten paper.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Arrangør av konferansen The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Words of Welcome".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Visuell Kultur i Norden.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Toward a Transaesthetic Dispositif: Approaching Disciplinarity Through Deleuze".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "On the Unwatchable".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Om forholdet mellom estetisk teori og estetisk praksis.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Explaining Ourselves to the Image: Ethics and Form in Morris, Folman and Haneke.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Archives of Violence".
  • Show author(s) (2009). Kommentator, moderator, medarrangør av "Concepts, Meaning, Interpretation, Intention (med Toril Moi)".
  • Show author(s) (2009). Arrangør av konferansen The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Arrangør av The First Nomadikon Meeting: Pluralizing Visual Culture.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Amerikabilder.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Words of Welcome".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Words of Welcome".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Transmedial Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "The Unwatchable, or, the Fork in the Eye".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "The Ethical Life of Images".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Pluralizing Visual Culture: Roundtable Discussion.".
  • Show author(s) (2008). Moderator, kommentator, medarrangør av "Det Estetiske i Litteratur-, kunst- og kulturforskningen".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Theorizing Disciplinarity: The Case of Cinema Studies and its Vanishing Objects".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema.".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Cinema and its Place in the Digital Era: The New Architecture of Image Studies".
  • Show author(s) (2007). "The Place of Cinema in the Era of Visual Studies".
  • Show author(s) (2007). "The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness".
  • Show author(s) (2006). Abject Desire:Anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Music of the Handsome Family.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Last Year at the Ambassador: Pastness in The Decay of Fiction.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in David Fincher's Fight Club.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Denis Johnson's Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up.
  • Show author(s) (2004). "Vår Tids Redsel For Alvor:" Nokre Refleksjonar Rundt Roy Anderssons Sanger Fra Andre Etasje.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Rossellini and the Transtextual.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Rhetoric of the Historical Fiction Film.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Love Among the Ruins: Memory and Iconology in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Bazin and the Question of Filmicity in the Digital Age.
  • Show author(s) (2001). The Lying Game?: Historical Fiction and the Re-Invention of the "Past".
  • Show author(s) (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception, and Aesthetic Framework.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception and Aesthetic Framework.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Film Beyond Photography: The Politics of Artificiality.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Andre Bazin and the Substance of Filmicity.
  • Show author(s) (2000). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Peckinpah’s Walden: The Violent Indictment of ”Civilization” in The Wild Bunch.
  • Show author(s) (2000). "Abject Topographies: Images of Male Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner".
  • Show author(s) (1999). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: On Reading The Wild Bunch as a Narrative of Regeneration.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. Lexington Books.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Coverscaping : discovering album aesthetics. Museum Tusculanums Forlag.
  • Show author(s) (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. Nova Science Publishers.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2024). "Sitat og Plagiat i ei Postlitterær Tid". Forskerforum.no.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Nyliberal ytringsfridom. Klassekampen. 40-41.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Eit Globalt Perspektiv på Humaniora. På Høyden - nettavis for Universitetet i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Kunst som forsking, forsking som kunst". Forskerforum. 40-41.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Sosiopatiens anatomi - Michael Haneke og Das Weisse Band. På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Film Heile Dagen Lang.". På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Portrett av eit Augeblikk". Klassekampen. 12-13.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Eit Forsøk på å oppsummere den evigvarande tellekantdebatten". Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. 62-63.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Abu Ghraib i den visuelle kulturen". Klassekampen. 8-17.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Murnau og Soloppgangen. Bergens Tidende. 37-37.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2008). New American Cinema. The Literary Encyclopedia.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Jean-Luc Godard". The Literary Encyclopedia.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Mot ein ny biletvitskap: Intervju med W.J.T. Mitchell. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 71-81.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Monographs

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (utkommer desember 2020).

Film and the Ethical Imagination (2016).

Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema (2012).

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).

 

Anthologies

Microdystopias

Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (2019).

Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight (2016).

Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing (2016).

Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014).

Ethics and Images of Pain (2012).

Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics (2010).

To Become the Self One is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter (2005).

 

 

Ongoing book projects:

* Aesthetics, Neoliberalism, Isegoria.

* The Poetics of Mourning: Cinema, Literature, Music

* Sleater-Kinney

* The Soundscapes Project

 

 

Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image (Trond Mohn Stiftelse (tidl. Bergen Forskningsstiftelse) 2008-2013).