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Lost in Translation? Multiple Discursive Strategies and the Interpretation of Sustainability in the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The term ‘sustainability’ is vague and open to interpretation. In this paper we analyze how firms use the term in an effort to make the concept their own, and how it becomes a premise for further decisions, by applying a ... -
Responsible Research and Innovation in the Global South: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and the Pursuit of Symmetry
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Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:276, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary This thesis explores the increased use of participatory strategies in contemporary theatre by focusing on competing interpretations of what participation engenders, and the differing contexts in which such ... -
Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-theoretical relations in AdS/CFT
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We show by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of quantum gravity how inter-representational relations—loosely speaking relations among different equivalent representations of one and the same physics—can ... -
Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In her paper “Neo-positivist metaphysics” (Philosophical Studies, 160(1), 53–78, 2012), Alyssa Ney promises a naturalized metaphysics that is acceptable even by positivists’ – and specifically Carnap’s – standards. This ... -
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Distance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. ... -
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged. One might ponder if there is enough evidence ... -
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While much interdisciplinarity brings together proximate fields, broad interdisciplinarity sees integration between disciplines that are perceived to be non-neighboring. This paper argues that the heterogeneity among ... -
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, ... -
From Food Regulation to Environmental Challenge: The Construction, Practice and Consequences of Date Labelling in Norway
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:409, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary Whenever we do our shopping for groceries or when we go through our food storage, we are confronted with the expiration date. This date enables us to shop, and later eat, without making decisions within a wide ... -
Fabulous folds: revolutionary costumes in Grey Gardens (1975)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This essay discusses the material agency of clothing in the celebrated documentary classic Grey Gardens (David and Albert Maysles, USA 1975). Drawing on the extraordinary relationship between the protagonists, their clothing, ... -
Presumptions, proficiencies, and parallel languages: Investigating academic English reading among Norwegian university students
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:353, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Norwegians are exposed to English on a daily basis and are considered to be among the most proficient second-language English users in the world. It therefore seems only natural that English and Norwegian should be used ... -
The quest for a non-competitive market, Standard oil, the international oil industry and the Scandinavian states, 1890-1939
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article focuses on the expansion of the international oil majors into Scandinavia in the period before World War II. From 1890, Standard Oil dominated the Scandinavian markets, but gradually the company’s hold on these ... -
Communication, Cooperation and Conflict
(Journal article, 2012)According to Steven Pinker and his associates the cooperative model of human communication fails, because evolutionary biology teaches us that most social relationships, including talk-exchange, involve combinations of ... -
Mitigating isolation and loneliness with technology through emotional care by social robots in remote
(Chapter, 2020)This book chapter explores how experiences of isolation and loneliness in remote areas can be mitigated through social robots’ emotional care. We first discuss the concept of being social and how that notion is changing ... -
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Environmental and climatic change has become a frequent motif in contemporary Norwegian literature, television and film, and Norway has the worldwide first organization of writers committed to climate action (The Norwegian ... -
The Living Transcendental - An Integrationist View of Naturalized Phenomenology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article I take on the “Transcendentalist Challenge” to naturalized phenomenology, highlighting how the ontological and methodological commitments of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy point in the direction of an integration ... -
Semantic Burden-Shifting and Temporal Externalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Temporal externalism is the view that the meanings and extensions of linguistic expressions can be partly determined by contingent linguistic and/or conceptual developments that take place after the time of utterance. In ... -
Emerging circular economies: Discourse coalitions in a Norwegian case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains an anticipated future with alternative pathways for its fulfillment. Most research on CE is normative about technological approaches and interpretations for production and ...
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