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Toril Moi

@torilmoi.bsky.social
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Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.

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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Agreed. A bare minimum, even. But how do you cope with the weight of the carry-on?
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
svært interessant og tankevekkende!
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Register for the Jameson Conference at Duke! April 10-12: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory." Link to the registration form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Register to Attend: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory, Duke University, April 10–12, 2026
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'll be traveling for the first time in a long time! Looking forward to speaking and listening at the Modes of Reading Symposium at Berkeley on Thursday and Friday this week! townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close...
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Close, Distant, Embodied, Artificial: Modes of Reading Today | Townsend Center for the Humanities
How do (and should) we read today? This two-day symposium considers how emerging technologies, habits of attention, and cross-cultural legacies shape contemporary reading practices.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Call for papers for #Jameson Memorial Conference April 2026.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
thank you! this is a lovely paragraph! Congratulations!
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Robert Redford died this week. He marked my youth! All the tributes are so well deserved. But why do so many of them fail to mention his great political movie, The Candidate (1972), where he plays an idealist running for Senate, who almost unwittingly ends up selling out.
Robert Redford in The Candidate, black and white photo
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Jeg skriver om Hannah Arendts relevanse i @morgenbladet.no i dag. Hennes analyser av totalitarismens framvekst, sannhetens vilkår i politikken, og politisk frihet er imponerende. Hun hadde en utrolig evne til å gripe det filosofisk og politisk relevante i konkrete hendelser!
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Apologies: Arendt never said exactly this. She wrote some similar things, notably in “Truth and Politics”. But this is a jazzed up version. Is it AI generated? Or just someone’s creative poster-making?
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Jeg skriver om nærlesningens begrensinger i mitt svar til Ulrik Eriksen i Morgenbladet i dag. Er ikke veldig glad i dettte bildet, men slik er livet . www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/toril-...
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(+) Lett å kritisere en bok for det den ikke gjør
Ulrik Eriksen mener at jeg ikke kan analysere film. Hvorfor? Fordi jeg er litteraturviter.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#VigdisHjorth og jeg snakket med Ane Farsethås om liv, litteratur og filosofi på #Litteraturhuset i Oslo den 11. juni. Nå foreligger samtalen som podkast. Hør den her: shows.acast.com/litteraturhu...
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Filosofien i det levde liv: Toril Moi og Vigdis Hjorth | Litteraturhusets podkast
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Det ble en livlig prat med Vegard Larsen på NRKs #Drivkraft ! radio.nrk.no/podkast/driv...
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Toril Moi - Drivkraft - NRK Radio
– Jeg var frykelig slem med min mor, sier professoren. Nå ser hun at hennes feminist-forakt for husmorrollen var ufortjent.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Åste Dokka laget en finpodkast med meg denne uken. Hør den her: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Toril Moi: Et tiår for misogyni og helvetesdebatt
Podcast Episode · Dokka · 06/13/2025 · 1h
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Kjempefin anmeldelse av På jakt etter Norge av Martha Norheim i @Morgenbladet.no. Jeg ble så glad! www.morgenbladet.no/boker/overra...
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(+) Då Toril Moi fekk tilbod om å forske på kva ho ville, valte ho 1950-talet
Moi koplar saman slikt ho finn og får ein halvgløymt epoke til å bli både eksotisk og nærverande.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I morgen onsdag på Litteraturhuset i Oslo! Ane Farsethås samtaler med Vigdis Hjorth og meg. Om filosofi og det hverdagslige. Og min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Anes samtalebiografi om meg. www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
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Filosofien i det levde liv: Toril Moi og Vigdis Hjorth
I samtale med Ane Farsethås om hverdagsliv, eksistens, og litteraturens plass i turbulente tider.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Det er i dag! Lansering av min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Ane Farsethås' samtalebiografi med meg. I samtale med Wenche Mühleisen. På Gyldendal klokken 18 i dag! www.facebook.com/events/12085...
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Lansering og samtale med Toril Moi, Wenche Mühleisen og Ane Farsethås
Event in Oslo, Norway by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag on Tuesday, June 10 2025 with 302 people interested and 44 people going.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My friend and colleague Sarah Beckwith's stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape
By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We're launching På jakt etter Norge [Searching for Norway], my book on the Norwegian 1950s in Oslo, at Gyldendal, on June 10, at 6 p.m. Alongside Ane Farsethås' book about me. Here's the gorgeous cover of my book, based on Nikolai Astrup's paintings.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Wittgenstein’s birthday yesterday. The one philosopher I wish everyone in the humanities would try to understand. Philosophical Investigations changed my intellectual world.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Remembering Fred #Jameson. Duke's Literature Program has now put up the video of the memorial gathering it hosted for Fred Jameson. Feel free to share the link: literature.duke.edu/news/literat...
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Literature Hosts Memorial Service to Honor Fredric Jameson (1934-2024)
Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the international profile of Duke's Literature program, died on September 22. Two month...
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Dag Solstad er død. En stor forfatter; et stort tap for norsk litteratur.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Nasjonalbibliotekets Hedda Gabler seanse går av stabelen i morgen torsdag klokken 13. Seminaret strømmes også live: www.nb.no/tv/litteraer...
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Litterært laboratorium: Ibsens samtidsdramaer 1877–1899. Hedda Gabler
Nasjonalbiblioteket varmer opp til Ibsenåret 2028 og inviterer til åpent estetisk analyseverksted, hvor vi leter fram sentrale passasjer fra Henrik Ibsens samtidsdramaer og diskuterer hva det var med ...
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I will be in Oslo next week! Contributing to a session on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Library - Thursday 13 March at 13:00. www.nb.no/hva-skjer/li...
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Litterært laboratorium: Ibsens samtidsdramaer 1877–1899. Hedda Gabler
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
yes - this is interesting. i have heard colleagues argue against hiring in earlier historical periods on such grounds
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My friend Robin Walz has launched a great blog on French Popular Crime! Check it out on shadydetectives.com
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Shady Detectives, Elegant Criminals & Dark Avengers
A Blog about French Popular Crime Writing
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Siss Vik @sissvik.bsky.social skriver om litterære vandringer i Bergen! www.nrk.no/bokbrevet/bo...
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Bokbrevet # 47 I Karl Ove Knausgårds og Jon Fosses fotspor i Bergen
Jeg har gått i Karl Ove Knausgårds fotspor i Bergen.
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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –   #books #philsky
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The self-destruction of Justice: we know the pretty name it calls iself – Clemency! It remains, as is obvious, the privilege of the strongest, better still, their way of going beyond the law. (Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2, part 10.)
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
These lines in Nietzsche struck me this morning: "It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/02/2025
On the podcast, @torilmoi.bsky.social joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, master of the collapsing relationship. What does her early reputation as an ‘erotic’ novelist get wrong about her work? Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Toril Moi and Malin Hay · On Vigdis Hjorth
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
three of my favorite writers!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/01/2025
There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week. Read and follow them here: go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/01/2025
‘Women who write​ about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’ @torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth
Women who write ​about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less ‘universal’, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.” from my essay on Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only in LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth
Women who write ​about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
yes. but then they owe us an account of exactly how this specific view on this specific point makes a political difference in this specific case - the general claim alone is not evidence
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
wow. i never noticed that example, even in my bourdieu-ian days
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
it’s true that certain themes are preferred. i was more thinking about the tendency to turn certain theoretical positions that often have nothing to do with the political questions at stake into political litmus tests.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The Danish paper Information also has an interview with me, done by Thomas Thura, who also interviewed @ritafelski.bsky.social . Readers of Danish can click here for the pdf: torilmoi.com/latest/toril...
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Toril Moi interview January 2025 – Toril Moi
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
People looking for the pdf of my review essay on Guillory, Kramnick, and Robbins, can now find it here: torilmoi.com/wp-content/u...
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
There's a very nice interview with @ritafelski.bsky.social in the Danish newspaper Information, by Thomas Thura, published just before New Years. For those of you who read Danish, I have put the pdf up on my website (which I will try to revive this year). torilmoi.com/latest/rita-...
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Rita Felski interview in Information December 2024 – Toril Moi
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Does anyone know why "The Black Prince" by Iris Murdoch is unavailable as an audiobook (read by Anthony Howell) in the USA? #Murdoch It's available in Canada and in the UK. I would dearly like to listen to it (in addition to reading it, of course).
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
fascinating about languages as the backbones of cultures. thought provoking. reminded me of a fascinating essay about “learning Thangmi” which i can no longer find. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?
In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
oh how nice! thank you!
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
can’t wait to read this…
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Cavell writes about learning to trust one’s aesthetic experience - intro to Pursuits of Happiness. I also love “Aesthetic problems in modern philosophy”. - agree about murdoch, but want to add cora diamond - the difficulty of reality is great. - in a different mode: Bourdieu Distinction —-
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Thrilled to see New Directions bringing out the first two volumes of Solvej Balle’s extraordinary “On the calculation of volume”! www.ndbooks.com/author/solve...
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Solvej Balle
New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
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