Biopolitikk og funksjonshemming, sykdom og animalitet (avsluttet)

• Lundblad, Michael (2024). Hold the Door: Companion Prosthetics in “Game of Thrones”. Minority Reports. Cultural Disability Studies. ISSN 2465-0315. 18(1), s. 77–86. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2020). Animality/ posthumanism/ disability: An introduction. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), s. v–xxi. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0040. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2020). Disanimality: Disability studies and animal advocacy. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), s. 765–795. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0048. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2020). On the transhumanist imaginary and the biopolitics of contingent embodiment. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), s. 805–823. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0050. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2020). Monstermekanismer. Fryktinngytende blandinger og rasjonalitetens makt. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 1, s. 19–33. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2020-01-03. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2020). Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability. I McHugh, Susan; McKay, Robert & Miller, John (Red.), The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030397722. s. 557–574. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  One of the most commercially successful films of all time, Avatar (2009) is a blockbuster hit that provides a good example for investigating how disability and animality are far more intertwined and complicated than they might appear at first glance. We identify key scenes in Avatar in order to explore what we call “companion prosthetics”, in which transhuman and posthuman interactions and becomings have the potential for being more symbiotic, helping to deconstruct simplistic binaries such as able/disabled and human/animal. Different kinds of prosthesis need to be considered, such as the distinction between those with compensatory and augmentative goals, and the possibility for prosthetics to be associated with pleasure at times, rather than simply negative aspects of impairment. Jake’s fantasy-made-“real” of transcending his wheelchair by transforming into his avatar body by the end of the film can be seen as both an example of “narrative prosthesis” and a more interesting alternative. Choosing “companion prosthetics” over a “cure”—particularly in terms of the interspecies relationship required for the Na’vi to fly—has the potential for modelling utopian, posthumanist, and anti-speciesist visions.

• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson. I Watson, Nick J. & Vehmas, Simo (Red.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. 2nd Edition. Routledge. ISSN 9781138365308. doi: 10.4324/9780429430817-9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2018). Samarbeidsklimaendringer. Om humanistiske og filosofiske livsbetingelser i en posthumanistisk tid. Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1943. 53(1), s. 19–27. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2018-01-03. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique. I Lothe, Jakob (Red.), The Future of Literary Studies. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270999002. s. 87–97. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The discipline of literary studies has a long tradition of borrowing the concepts and methods of related disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, while also itself exerting a significant influence on other disciplines. In this book, 15 literary scholars hailing from five different countries consider these processes of mutual enrichment from various critical perspectives. What is the current state of literary studies, and what does the future of this many-faceted field look like? How can the approach of, or trend within, literary studies that each of these scholars represents contribute to literary studies in general? The chapters of the book are revised versions of papers given in June 2016 at a conference entitled “The Future of Literary Studies” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. Demonstrating that literary studies constitutes a remarkably active and strikingly diverse area of study and research, the chapters confirm that the field of literary studies is dynamic and open-minded, receiving impulses from other disciplines yet conscious of the characteristics, demands and possibilities appropriate to a discipline in its own right. The book has an introduction by the editor and an afterword by Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen.

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• Lundblad, Michael (2026). Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197845660. doi: 10.1093/9780197845707.001.0001. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract: Disability activists and scholars in disability studies have long been uncomfortable with comparisons between animals and people with disabilities and chronic or terminal illnesses. Given the long history of dehumanizing and animalizing people with disabilities, disability advocacy includes reclaiming the humanity and basic human rights of disabled people. It can therefore be difficult to be confronted with the suggestion that animals are often treated similarly to the ways that people with disabilities have been treated. Recent work in disability studies has nonetheless called for greater engagement with animal studies as a field. But this book argues that certain forms of animal advocacy can lead to greater discomfort than others, including veganism and abolitionist animal rights. The book argues instead for a more nuanced and historically and culturally situated approach, staying with the trouble of what the author calls disanimality, the feeling of discomfort that comes from overly simplistic comparisons. Other forms of animal studies—drawing upon the fields of posthumanism, biopolitics, and animality studies—have better potential for more complex and productive inquiries. While theoretical questions and implications are foregrounded in each chapter, examples are drawn from contemporary U.S. and Anglophone novels, films, and memoirs, each suggesting particular situated sites of disanimality. The book ultimately reveals that closer attention to the ways that disability, illness, and animality meet in these contexts can point toward new ways of developing posthumanist disability, illness, and animal studies, as well as more potential for coalitions between advocacy movements.

• Grue, Jan (2019). Det var en gang et menneske. Posthumanisme som tanke og tendens. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215031798. 192 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Hold the Door: Companion Prosthetics in Game of Thrones. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Disability in Dialogue with Animality: The BIODIAL Project. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2020). Does Illness Make You Less Human? [Internet]. ScienceNorway.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  “Darwin propagated the idea that humans are like other animals fighting for survival, but distinguished supposedly by our intellect. This logic makes it possible for some human lives to be seen as more valuable than others,” says Professor of literature Michael Lundblad.

• Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2020). Gjør sykdom deg mindre verdt som menneske? [Internet]. https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Med Darwin kom ideen om at mennesker er rasjonelle dyr som kjemper for overlevelse. Hva vi regner som verdifulle liv er p­­reget av denne logikken, mener litteraturprofessor Michael Lundblad.

• Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Taylor, Sunaura (2020). Being Human, Being Animal: Species Membership in Extraordinary Times. [Journal]. New Literary History. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary Illness Narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2019). Speculative Storytelling and Configurations of the Human: Disability, Animality, and Monstrosity in an Extraordinary Female Body. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Zombie Terrorists, Necropolitics, and Animality in World War Z. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2019). Hele mennesker i en fantastisk verden. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Etter Game of Thrones blir det vanskeligere å fortelle historier der funksjonsnedsettelser er en egenskap som gjør bæreren litt mindre til menneske.

• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2019). The Enabling Condition, or, What Does It Mean to Learn from Temple Grandin? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2019). Diagnosing the Diagnosis: Towards a "Green Reading" of/in Jeffrey Eugenides’ 'Middlesex'. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2019). "Narrative Maiming"? Debilitation and Capacitation in Kingsolver and Coetzee. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2019). The Enabling Condition, Or, What Are "We" Learning from Temple Grandin? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2019). Next Friends: Nonhuman Subjectivity and the Problem of Self-Representation in Paul Auster’s 'Timbuktu'. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Iddiorhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). Embodying the narrative: Disability and animality in Game of Thrones. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper asks how narrative tropes linked to disability and animality are deployed in a work of (extremely) popular fiction, namely the television series Game of Thrones (GoT). While disability and animality are often not theorized together, we argue that their sites of intersection are highly productive. By investigating the tensions and possibilities that arise when disability and animality meet, we seek new insight into how different forms of embodiment and different lives are culturally (de)valued.

• Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2019). "Disability, animality and gender: the extraordinary body in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary U.S. Illness Narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2018). De-valuing Lives: Towards a Critical Thanatopolitics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality: Cultural Representations and Societal Significance. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2018). Etter mennesket. Cary Wolfe, Mel Chen og Jan Grue om posthumanisme, biopolitikk, kunst og kropsspråk. [Journal]. Vinduet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Den litterære fauna: Menneskelige dyr og dyriske mennesker (deltager). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2018). Disability in Game of Thrones: Fantastical diversity or narrative prosthesis? The BIODIAL Blog. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2018). Åpen bok. [Radio]. NRK P2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bradstreet, Tom Zachary (2018). Making the Cut: Reading Disability and Animality in the 21st Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2018). Posthuman Entanglements: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). The Jungle of the Ill: Animalities in Contemporary Illness Narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2018). The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Survival Reading: Illness Narratives and Animalities in the New Millennium. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2018). "Early modern monstrous births and transhumanism's silent monsters: investigating the promise and threat of bodily difference". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Disability and Animality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Survival Reading: Illness, Animality, and Terror in the New Millennium. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Life in a Toxic Homeland: The Biopolitics of Animality and Disability in Bhopal and Indra Sinha's Animal's People. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Survival Reading: Terrors of Illness and Animality in the New Millennium. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Druglitrø, Tone (2017). Ebola Zombies and Terrorist Animals?: Welcome to World War Z. The BIODIAL Blog. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2017). BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2017). Dine, mine, våre barn. Anmeldelse av Karin Bojs' Min europeiske familie. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s. 12–12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grue, Jan (2017). System uten senter. Om posthumanisme. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2016). Representations of Disability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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