Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo. I study media, cultural and aesthetic theory.

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New book · SUNY Press, 2026

Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen

How actors shape time on screen — not through plot or montage, but through a glance, a shrug, an awkward embrace.

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Recent writing

Metamodernism and paranoia
With Robin van den Akker · Open Philosophy, 2026

The flow of time is ours to disrupt
IAI News, 2026

Boredom in two figures
History, Culture and Modernity, 2025

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Upcoming talks

Lithuanian Institute for Cultural Research
Vilnius · December 2026

Cité
Paris · December 2026

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