Steffen Krüger

• Krüger, Steffen & Spilde, Ane Charlotte (2019), “Judging books by their cover - Tinder interface, usage and sociocultural implications”, Information, Communication and Society.
• Krüger, Steffen (2019), "The authoritarian dimension in digital self-tracking: containment, commodification, subjugation”, in: Vera King, Hartmut Rosa and Benigna Gerisch (eds.), ‘Lost in Perfection’. Impacts of Optimization on Culture and Psyche, London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl & Richards, Barry (2018), Fomenting Political Violence – Fantasy, Language, Media, Action, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Krüger, Steffen (2018), "Facing Fanon: Examining Neocolonial Aspects in Grand Theft Auto V through the Prism of the Machinima Film Finding Fanon II”, Open Library of Humanities, 4(1): 12, 2018, pp. 1–31.

• Krüger, Steffen and Gry Rustad (2017), “Coping with shame in a media-saturated society – The Norwegian web-series Skam as transitional object”, Television and New Media, published online: 22/11/2017.

• Krüger, Steffen (2017), “‘Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites’ – The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism”, e-flux, #83, summer 2017.

• Krüger, Steffen (2017), “Dropping Depth Hermeneutics into Psychosocial Studies – a Lorenzerian perspective”, The Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 10/1, 47-66.

• Krüger, Steffen (2017), “Unable to mourn again? Media(ted) responses to Neo-Nazi terror in Germany”, in: Auestad, L., Shared Traumas, Silent Loss – Public and Private Mourning, Karnac, 2017, pp. 59–76.

• Krüger, Steffen and Jacob Johanssen (2016), “Thinking (with) the Unconscious in Media and Communication Studies”, CM: Journal of Communication and Media, 11(38), 2016, 5–40, http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/issue/current/showToc.

• Krüger, Steffen (2016), “Understanding Affective Labor Online – a depth-hermeneutic reading of the My 22nd of July webpage”, Ephemera – theory and politics in organisation, special issue: Karppi et al., Affective Capitalism, 16(4), 185-208, http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/contribution/16-4kruger.pdf.

• Krüger, Steffen (2015), “Pseudonyms in Online Discussion Forums: A Psychosocial Approach”, Seachange – Art, Communication, Technology, 2015, 23–50, http://www.seachangejournal.ca/PDF/2015_Naming/2015_Nommer-Naming-2015.pdf.

• Krüger, Steffen (2014). The legend of the artist: Family romance and Führer Myth. American Imago.  ISSN 0065-860X.  71(1), s 29- 51 . doi: 10.1353/aim.2014.0006.

• Krüger, Steffen (2014). Tiefenhermeneutische Zugänge zur digitalen Moderne, I: Elisabeth Rohr (red.), Inszenierungen des Unbewussten in der Moderne.  Marburg: Tectum.  ISBN 978-3-205-78896-6.  Kapittel 5.  s 73 - 100.

• Krüger, Steffen & Johanssen, Jacob (2014). "Alienation and Digital Labour - A Depth-Hermeneutic Inquiry into Online Commodification and the Unconscious", tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.  ISSN 1726-670X.  12(2), s 632- 647.

• Krüger, Steffen (2013). "How far can I make my fingers stretch? – A response to Vivian Sobchack". Free Associations.  ISSN 0267-0887.  (64), s 104- 131.

• Krüger, Steffen (2012). Fresh Brains: Jacques Lacan’s Critique of Ernst Kris’s Psychoanalytic Method in the Context of Kris’s Theoretical Writings. American Imago.  ISSN 0065-860X.  69(4), s 507- 542

• Krüger, Steffen (2025). Formative Medien – psychoanalytische Medienforschung zwischen Distanzlosigkeit und Abwesenheit. texte – psychoanalyse. ästhetik. kulturkritik. ISSN 0254-7902. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract – English: This article systematically defines the concept of “formative media” in the context of commercial digital platforms of the early 21st century. The thesis that the digital is a classic symbol-based media system and thus a “language of the absent” (Löchel) is brought into dialogue with the counter-position that the digital does not emphasize absences but rather creates exuberant immediacies and presences. The central argument of the article is that psychoanalytic analyses of digital media need to keep both positions in mind and bring them in touch with one another. The concept of “the formative” outlines this mediating relationship by pointing to the typical forms of user interpellation on the part of the platforms. These platforms promise their users care and positive growth but fixate them in precisely this process.

• Krüger, Steffen & Aarseth, Helene (2025). The debt of privilege: audit culture, universities and the depletion of mental space. Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 18(1), s. 5–21. doi: 10.1332/14786737Y2025D000000040. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In a narrative interview study on how academic staff in humanities and social science departments at a Scandinavian university live their lives in academia, we encountered a conspicuous narrative about being privileged. ‘It is an immense privilege to hold a university position’, our interviewees stated repeatedly and in a variety of ways. In this article, we argue that this narrative of privilege is more than a simple display of modesty. Rather, we interpret its evocation as a highly charged expression of something that is being ‘excommunicated’ and thus increasingly difficult to put into words within the neoliberal university. Giving form to this symbolic absence, we propose that what has gone missing from current university culture is the acknowledgement of the legitimacy of ‘mental space’ (Young, 1994). In our analysis, we define ‘mental space’ as the creative and searching work of developing novel ways of thinking and nourishing one’s understanding of the world. By characterising this foundational dimension of scholarly work as a ‘privilege’, and therefore as something that is not ever fully deserved, the pursuit of knowledge itself becomes indebting and the mental space that academic work is based on becomes depleted and hollowed out.

• Aarseth, Helene; Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum & Krüger, Steffen (2023). Freedom, Resonance, Interaction. Critical Theory and Creative Relations Between the Psyche and the Social. I Frosh, Stephen; Walsh, Julie & Vyrgioti, Marita (Red.), The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030615109. s. 1–20. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter introduces a psychosocial strand of thinking that offers a way to conceive of creative relations between the psyche and the world. Whereas much current psychosocial theory stresses how anxieties are managed by defending the self against the world or fuel subjection to oppressive social norms, the theories we engage with here point to ways in which anxieties can be employed in the urge to bridge inner longings and external realities. These ideas took form in the early Frankfurt School, which despite their comprehensive integration of psychoanalytic and social theory until recently has been comparatively marginalized in Anglophone Psychosocial Theory.

• Krüger, Steffen (2023). Have your cake and feed it fonvard too: Youtube, oral cravings and the persistent question of media addiction. First Monday. 28(11). doi: 10.5210/fm.v28i8.12917. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Focusing on the case of recommendations on the video streaming platform YouTube, this article revisits questions of media addiction and addictive media that continue to trouble research in the field. Based on a close reading of Google/YouTube’s engineering papers, this paper argues that the platform’s recommender system — the machine learning system responsible for the personalisation and customisation of what videos users are offered — has been designed to function as a feeding tube and a precarious holding environment, thus corroborating widespread critiques about this system’s addictive — oral — strategies of user retention. Subsequently, this article discusses how the platform’s more recent promise of “responsible recommendations” has so far been articulated in the engineering papers. Specifically, this promise has taken the form of a fetishist structure that endorses responsibility but not at the expense of the time users spend watching. This structure is best captured in the proverbial Have your cake and eat it too.

• Finch, Matthew; Bhroin, Niamh Ní & Krüger, Steffen (2023). Unlearning, relearning, staying with the trouble: Scenarios and the future of education. Prospect: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education. ISSN 0033-1538. doi: 10.1007/s11125-023-09664-7. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract In times of turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity—the so-called TUNA conditions—our experience of the past may prove a poor guide to the future times in which our decisions and their consequences will unfold. Under such conditions, the manufacture of scenarios that are plausible future contexts for a given issue and are designed to enrich strategic thinking by challenging expectations can help to inform decisions and debates. Education is often subject to such debates, as it is, among other things, a way of preparing for what the future holds. This article gives an account of learnings and unlearnings from a scenarios project applying the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach to the digitalization of education in Norwegian schools. It shows how challenging issues raised in the context of distant imagined futures proved to be immediately pertinent in the developing Covid-19 pandemic. This article sets this work in the wider context of education futures and ongoing debate about suitable methodological choices for institutions and communities wishing to explore how we will teach and learn together in times to come. As a wide range of actors explore the possibility of a new social contract for education, the article proposes that future scenarios can provide fresh perspectives on issues that are difficult or even impossible to resolve within current frames of reference, including questions of equity and justice that may be construed differently in times to come.

• Krüger, Steffen (2023). Media Studies and the Psychosocial Subject. I Frosh, Stephen; Walsh, Julie & Vyrgioti, Marita (Red.), The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030615109. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_4-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The chapter is divided into four main parts. Firstly, it provides a historical outline of the development of media studies by shedding light on the founding of its main schools and traditions. Secondly, it offers an understanding of media from a psychosocial vantage point, so as to then, thirdly, touch upon existing psychosocial traditions of studying media. The final part offers miniature portraits of central thinkers and texts in media studies and discusses their bearings on psychosocial conceptions of the subject. Due to the interdisciplinary origins and outlook of both media and psychosocial studies and their partial reliance on the same academic traditions, a significant number of key positions in media studies show strong affinities to psychosocial conceptions of the subject. Countering the dominant, quantitative-empirical research paradigm in media studies, these positions themselves have long since taken on hegemonic status. This status, in turn, casts an interesting light on psychosocial studies, which has traditionally seen itself as at the margins of the academic field.

• Krüger, Steffen & Degel, Alexander (2022). The fall of the East German trickster: A comparative cultural analysis of East and West German jokes before and after reunification. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. ISSN 1088-0763. 27, s. 181–200. doi: 10.1057/s41282-022-00280-6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Building on existing German transformation research, this article critically reconstructs an aspect of the problematic power relationship that emerged between the former East and West Germany after their reunification. In this relationship, the West took on a dominant, hegemonic position and the East a subaltern one. Drawing on jokes from East and West Germany as well as from the post-reunification period, an in-depth hermeneutic analysis brings into view a dynamic that can be read as symptomatic of this power imbalance. In particular the fate of the figure of the “good-for-nothing,” a mainstay in East German jokes, becomes emblematic of the subalternization of the East. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this good-for-nothing was associated with a subversive Trickster figure; in post-reunification Germany, and from the dominant Western perspective, the extraordinary vitality of this figure became incomprehensible, the joke was lost, and the good-for-nothing has turned stigmatic.

• Krüger, Steffen & Wilson, Christopher Ben (2022). The problem with trust: on the discursive commodification of trust in AI. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. ISSN 0951-5666. doi: 10.1007/s00146-022-01401-6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract This commentary draws critical attention to the ongoing commodification of trust in policy and scholarly discourses of artificial intelligence (AI) and society. Based on an assessment of publications discussing the implementation of AI in governmental and private services, our findings indicate that this discursive trend towards commodification is driven by the need for a trusting population of service users to harvest data at scale and leads to the discursive construction of trust as an essential good on a par with data as raw material. This discursive commodification is marked by a decreasing emphasis on trust understood as the expected reliability of a trusted agent, and increased emphasis on instrumental and extractive framings of trust as a resource. This tendency, we argue, does an ultimate disservice to developers, users, and systems alike, insofar as it obscures the subtle mechanisms through which trust in AI systems might be built, making it less likely that it will be.

• Krüger, Steffen (2022). Arrested Hermeneutics – Reassessing Alfred Lorenzer’s conceptions of cultural analysis and psychoanalysis. I Rothe, Katharina; Krüger, Steffen & Rosengart, Daniel (Red.), Cultural Analysis Now! Alfred Lorenzer and the in-depth hermeneutics of culture and society. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. ISSN 9781942254195. s. 207–239. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Busch, Katarina (2021). "Für jede Art von Freiheit": Thesen zu Rechtspopulismus und sozialen Medien. WestEnd Neue Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung. ISSN 1860-2177. 2021(1), s. 127–140. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen; Wilson, Christopher Ben & Tungodden, Kayla (2021). Trust for sale - A critical reading of the Norwegian National Strategy for AI. Norsk medietidsskrift (NMT). ISSN 0804-8452. 28(2-2021), s. 1–6. doi: 10.18261/ISSN.0805-9535-2021-02-07. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Degel, Alexander (2020). Der Untergang des ostdeutschen Tricksters – Eine vergleichende Kulturanalyse ost- und westdeutscher Witze vor und nach dem Mauerfall. Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik. ISSN 0170-0537. 2020-3/4(175+176). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2020). Anal sexuality and male subcultures online: The politics of self-deprecation in the deep vernacular web. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. ISSN 1088-0763. doi: 10.1057/s41282-020-00207-z. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article focuses on the prominence of dirt and excrements in online male subcultures. It offers an understanding of both the computer nerd cultures of the 4chan forum and Incel (acronym for “Involuntary celibate”) forums that is grounded in their displays of anal sexuality. The article traces the development of this sexuality from the sadistic-aggressive acts of discharge characteristic of 4chan to the masochistic displays of self-deprecation in Incel forums. Whereas the former serve to draw boundaries between the subcultural sphere and that of the cultural mainstream, the latter take the provocative performance of sexual immaturity towards a point of catastrophic loss of control. These performances have political implications, in which the fantasy of being out of control in particular moves Incel culture close to right extremism in that, it is argued, it anticipates a fatalistic act of vengeance against those who are given the blame for one’s castrated state. It is in this respect, I argue, that Incel culture must be seen as an extreme variation of online male subcultures.

• Krüger, Steffen & Finch, Matthew (2020). 2050 was last year. Times of COVID-19 Blog. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Bhroin, Niamh Ni (2020). Vital Signs: Innovations in Self-Tracking Health Insurance and Social Change. The Journal of Media Innovations. 6(1), s. 93–108. doi: 10.5617/jomi.7836. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Insurance companies are increasingly harnessing self-tracking data to innovate and create new health and life insurance schemes. These schemes are often hailed as social innovations, and a major growth opportunity for the industry. Clients are invited to track and measure their health behaviour, fitness habits and vital functions. The data produced is submitted directly to the insurer and used for risk assessment. Good health and behaviour are rewarded; while poor health and behaviour relegate the insured to a lower ‘health status’. We undertake a discourse analysis of published materials relating to these innovations to identify the cultural and social changes they introduce. We review four categories of publications identified through a focused literature review. These include (a) marketing and PR material (n=41) (b) journalistic articles (n=37), (c) industry publications (n=14), and (d) academic articles (n=25). Based on our analysis, we argue that these innovations introduce a significant imbalance of power between insurance corporations and consumers. Insurance corporations can select their clients, intervene in their behaviour and determine their value. Furthermore, these innovations threaten to change and erode conceptions of solidarity and fairness that underpin collective insurance schemes.

• Krüger, Steffen & Spilde, Ane Charlotte (2019). Judging books by their covers – Tinder interface, usage and sociocultural implications. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1572771. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Public discourse on Tinder depicts the dating app as marking the end of traditional – as well as healthy – notions of love and romance, permeating them with a logic of consumption and commodification. Our article offers a close reading of the Tinder user interface in order to inquire into how – and in how far – the contours of such commodity culture can be traced into the design and usage of the app. Guided by critical and Foucauldian theory, we indeed find strong objectifying tendencies built into the interface. However, these tendencies are riddled with contradictions and ambiguities. Thus, while the emphasis on the visual exacerbates pressures for users to meet bodily norms of beauty, it also reinvigorates embodied intuition and ‘gut feeling’, the loss of which has been critiqued in studies on more traditional forms of online dating. Furthermore, whereas the swipe gesture appears paradigmatic of a binary consume-and/or-discard attitude, Tinder’s monetising strategies indicate the users’ wish to amend and repair this attitude. Lastly, the aesthetics of the database feed a desire of ‘swiping on’ that is insatiable. However, building on existing research, we see the consequent flattening out of personal relations on Tinder to merely displace the longing for love and romance to a sphere beyond the app’s reach.

• Rustad, Gry Cecilie & Krüger, Steffen (2019). Coping with Shame in a Media-saturated Society: Norwegian Web-series Skam as Transitional Object. Television & New Media. ISSN 1527-4764. 20(1), s. 72–95. doi: 10.1177/1527476417741379. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2019). The authoritarian dimension in digital self-tracking: containment, commodification, subjugation. I King, Vera; Gerisch, Benigna & Rosa, Hartmut (Red.), Lost in Perfection - Impact of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. Routledge. ISSN 9781138894365. s. 85–104. doi: 10.4324/9781315179964-7. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this chapter I give an account of the first ten years of the history of digital self-tracking (2007–2017) and bring to the fore an authoritarian dimension emerging from the current phase in its development. Adding a psychoanalytically informed focus on the role of anxiety and its containment to the existing approaches, I show the history of digital self-tracking as falling into three main phases. While, in the early days of the Quantified Self movement, the containment of chronic health problems took centre stage (phase one), the commodification of self-tracking in the form of fitness trackers and smart watches (phase two) has glossed over the initial logic of containment. By the same token, this logic has been spreading to increasingly more spheres of life, colonising users’ routines and practices with a general drive towards self-optimisation. Whereas fitness tracking is sold as a highly customised and personalised activity, online corporate surveillance and the selling of user data to third parties turns the self-optimisation endeavour into a decisively social one. Users know that their data travels and that it is being assessed by others, and this tacit knowledge turns self-optimisation into a moral issue: How fit do I have to be to be fit enough? It is at this point that private insurance companies are stepping in (phase three) with the suggestion of a trade-off: ‘Since you know that your data is up for grabs anyways, why not give it to us directly? In exchange we tell you exactly what to do and how fit to be. It is in the suggestion of this deal that I see the authoritarian dimension of digital self-tracking.

• Krüger, Steffen (2018). Facing Fanon: Examining Neocolonial Aspects in Grand Theft Auto V through the Prism of the Machinima Film Finding Fanon II. Open Library of Humanities. 4(1), s. 1–31. doi: 10.16995/olh.177. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article, I examine the Machinima film Finding Fanon II, by London-based artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, for what it can tell us about the relationship between video gaming and the postcolonial. Evoking Frantz Fanon, one of the most piercing voices of the decolonisation movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in the context of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), one of the most technologically advanced and, at the same time, scandalous video game series of the 21st century, Finding Fanon II amounts to a scathing critique of both the game series’ depiction of race and academic scholarship that has been defending the series on the grounds of its use of humour and irony. Shot in the in-game video editor of GTA V, Finding Fanon II lets this critique emerge from inside the game and as an effect of the artists’ engagement with it. By suspending the game’s mechanisms and programmed forms of interaction, the artwork brings their racialised logic to the fore, pointing towards the ways in which GTA V commodifies black men for the consumption of white players. This commodification has the effect of normalising and naturalising the precarious position of black people in Western society. What the artwork adds to this argument through its facilitation of a Fanonian perspective is a reminder that it is not only the gaming experience of white players that is framed in this way. Players with ethnic minority backgrounds might also accept the white gaze of the game as a given. Acts of self-commodification along the lines of a white Western rationality must thus be seen as a plausible new form of cultural imperialism promoted by the GTA series.

• Krüger, Steffen (2018). Violence and the Virtual. I Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl & Richards, Barry (Red.), Fomenting Political Violence - Fantasy, Language, Media, Action. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319975047. s. 75–102. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97505-4_5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article sheds light on the role of social media in the instigation of acts of violence. It identifies and interprets the major forms of interaction emerging from the interplay between page owners and users on German right-wing, anti-asylum Facebook pages, bringing to the fore these pages’ interactional dynamic. Mainly two forms of interaction are identified. Firstly, by condensing news reports about crimes committed by foreigners into a coherent vision of reality, users are to be awakened to this reality. Secondly, by incessantly pointing to the intolerableness of this reality, the users’ continued inactivity is turned into a moral issue that goes to the core of their identities.

• Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl & Richards, Barry (2018). Fomenting Political Violence - An Introduction. I Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl & Richards, Barry (Red.), Fomenting Political Violence - Fantasy, Language, Media, Action. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319975047. s. 1–16. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97505-4_1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this introduction we use a speech by Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, as an example with which to explain the psychosocial outlook of the volume. ‘If you had raped three, I will admit it, that’s on me,’ Duterte told soldiers tasked with battling Muslim rebels. We follow the reception of this and others of Duterte’s statements in order to map the theoretical frame laid out by the concepts of fantasy, language, media, and action and offer various interpretations and analyses of the unfolding scenes. Subsequently, we introduce the volume’s chapters with reference to the theoretical frame thus set up.

• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Unable to mourn again? Media(ted) Reactions to German Neo-Nazi Terrorism. I Auestad, Lene (Red.), Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning. Karnac Books. ISSN 9781780491615. s. 59–76. doi: 10.4324/9780429480126-5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Dropping Depth Hermeneutics into Psychosocial Studies – a Lorenzerian perspective. Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 10(1), s. 47–66. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2016). Virtuelle Gewalt – „Nein zum Heim“ Facebook-Seiten und die Entstehung politischer Gewalt. PSYCHOANALYSE · Texte zur Sozialforschung. ISSN 1615-8393. 2016(2), s. 147–167. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2016). Understanding affective labor online: a depth-hermeneutic reading of the My 22nd of July webpage. Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. ISSN 2052-1499. 16(4), s. 185–208. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Johanssen, Jacob (2016). Thinking (with) the Unconscious in Media and Communication Studies. CM: Communication and Media. ISSN 2466-541X. 11(38), s. 2–35. doi: 10.5937/comman11-13131. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2015). Abschied mit Humor – die Rolle des Komischen im Trauern. I Haarmann, Hermann; Bormuth, Matthias & Schmieder, Falko (Red.), "Um Abschied geht es ja nun." Exil und kein Ende. Tectum. ISSN 9783828835276. s. 23–40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2015). Pseudonyms in Online Discussion Forums: A Psychosocial Approach. Seachange: Art, Communication, Technology. 2015(1), s. 23–50. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Johanssen, Jacob (2014). Alienation and Digital Labour - A Depth-Hermeneutic Inquiry into Online Commodification and the Unconscious. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 12(2), s. 632–647. doi: 10.31269/triplec.v12i2.548. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2014). The legend of the artist: Family romance and Führer Myth. American Imago. ISSN 0065-860X. 71(1), s. 29–51. doi: 10.1353/aim.2014.0006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2014). Tiefenhermeneutische Zugänge zur digitalen Moderne. I Rohr, Elisabeth (Red.), Inszenierungen des Unbewussten in der Moderne. Tectum. ISSN 9783205788966. s. 73–100. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Krüger, Steffen (2025). Formative Media – Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms. Routledge. ISBN 9781032308531. 224 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Johanssen, Jacob & Krüger, Steffen (2022). Media and Psychoanalysis – a critical introduction. Karnac Books. ISBN 9781913494575. 309 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rothe, Katharina; Krüger, Steffen & Rosengart, Daniel (2022). Cultural Analysis Now! Alfred Lorenzer and the in-depth hermeneutics of culture and society. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. ISBN 9781942254195. 254 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl & Richards, Barry (2018). Fomenting Political Violence - Fantasy, Language, Media, Action. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319975047. 260 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Röske, Thomas (2013). Im Dienste des Ich. Ernst Kris heute. Böhlau. ISBN 9783205788966. 214 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Krüger, Steffen (2025). Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. ISSN 1088-0763. doi: 10.1057/s41282-025-00527-y. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2021). «There is no sexual relatonship» - I’m your man – Ich bin Dein Mensch (Schrader 2021) and the question of desire. Kateksis : Bulleteng for Norsk psykoanalytisk forening. 2021(2), s. 34–43. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2020). Steffen Krüger - Um Olhar Germano-Nórdico sobre as Mídias Digitais, as Interaçoes Psicossociais e as Culturas de Tela. [Journal]. Movendo Ideias. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2019). Goatse & tubgirl - mannlige online-subkulturer og deres hatobjekter. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2019). It's over / It never began - Aggressive Akte der Selbst- und Fremdstigmatisierung in männlichen Internet-Subkulturen. Psyche - Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen. ISSN 0033-2623. doi: 10.21706/ps-73-9-771. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Bhroin, Niamh Ni (2019). Vital Signs: Datafication and Inequality in Self-Tracking Health Insurance Deals. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen & Bhroin, Niamh Ni (2019). Your Health is Our Wealth: Self-tracking health insurance deals, privacy and the erosion of solidarity. I Fieschi, Catherine & Grabbe, Heather (Red.), The European Way of Digital: How to make tech work for Open Societies in Europe. European Policy Institute. ISSN 9781999961121. s. 51–60. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2018). Plattformede Steder. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Critical theory of communication by Christian Fuchs, 2016. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites’ – The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism. E-flux Journal. ISSN 2164-1625. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Social Media Abyss by Geert Lovink, 2016. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2017). Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry: The Unconscious on the World Scene. William R. Meyers. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 253 pp. American Imago. ISSN 0065-860X. 74(2), s. 248–257. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Krüger, Steffen (2016). Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice. A psychoanalytical and philosophical enquiry into the dynamics of social exclusion and discrimination av Lene Auestad, Steffen Krüger. Matrix. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Psykoterapi. ISSN 0109-646X. 33(2), s. 95–98. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nicholas, Hanna Marie & Krüger, Steffen (2021). #Wearadamnmask: A Textual Analysis of Citizen-Led Surveillance and Digitally Mediated Shaming During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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