Helge Jordheim

• Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Introduction: A Theory of Lifetimes. I Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (Red.), Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISSN 9781685712433. s. 17–66. doi: 10.53288/0484.1.00. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, or come to a standstill during crisis, modern historiography is unable to come up with meaningful narratives about mankind as the sixth extinction event, and calendars are insufficient as tools for societal and political change. Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms presents an alternative framework for studying lives and times, and the relationships between them. Building on post-war theories of history, as well as several historical sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, history of science, and medical history, Lifetimes integrates approaches from anthropology, game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical heritage studies, science & technology studies, and critical time studies. Times are understood as always existing in plural, as embodied and emergent—in things, in assemblages of things, and in the relations between things. Among them are the lives of humans, but also the lives of viruses, plants, animals, rocks, computers, nations, concepts, policies, technologies, infrastructures, etc. Lifetimes explores theoretical foundations while at the same time developing them through case studies in individual chapters. The result is a bottom-up theory of temporal multiplicity, conceptually and theoretically open enough to be productive across various academic disciplines. Rather than discussing how different disciplines relate to time, the authors in this edited collection present a theoretically sustained, empirically diverse range of cases, in which times in plural become politically and historically salient. Out of these case studies a new theory emerges: a theory of lifetimes.

• Jordheim, Helge (2025). My Struggle, Mein Kampf, Our Lives: The Imagined Community of Knausgaard’s 'My Struggle'. I Neumann, Iver Brynild (Red.), Knausgaard in Context. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215068909. s. 53–75. doi: 10.18261/9788215068916-25-03. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Chapter 3 investigates how Knausgaard produces a particular form of time, a temporal community, between author, narrator, and readers. The focus is on the 400-page essay about Adolf Hitler in volume six of my Struggle, including its German reception, and on what happens when lives that seem to have little or nothing in common at the outset are brought together in the form and format of the novel.

• Jordheim, Helge (2025). Periodization in cultural history: From the Enlightenment to the Anthropocene. I Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (Red.), Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old turns, new encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350532632. s. 51–66. doi: 10.5040/9781350532632.ch-003. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The chapter discusses the role of periodization in cultural history from the perspective of the last period to rise to prominence in the field: the Anthropocene. In the first part, I place the Anthropocene within the tradition of other periodizations dominating post-war historiography. Far from just a set of neutral terms, periods like the Medieval Age and Modernity come with their own politics of rupture and exclusion. In the second part, I introduce the term ‘self-periodization’ to analyze in more detail the chronopolitics of the Anthropocene in comparison with another famous, although older self-periodization, the Enlightenment.

• Jordheim, Helge (2025). Times Out of Joint: Crises, Wars, and Watches. I Schuhmacher, Eckhard & Hess, Cordelia (Red.), Baltic Peripeties. The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions. V&R Unipress. ISSN 9783847117001. s. 79–96. doi: 10.14220/9783737017008.79. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The chapter contains a media history of crisis, discussing concepts, church bells, and watches, in life and literature.

• Jordheim, Helge (2025). Understanding crisis through temporal and rhetorical analysis. I Ihalainen, Pasi & Marjanen, Jani (Red.), Writing Conceptual Histories. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350287181. s. 209–232. doi: 10.5040/9781350289246.ch-009. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Concepts aggregate meanings and synchronize times. This chapter takes Koselleck’s theory of the ‘collective singular’ as a starting point for analysing the concept of crisis that, in the first decades of the twenty-first century, has come to dominate global political discourse. The methodological resources for this analysis are taken partly from German Begriffsgeschichte, partly from new rhetoric, developed at US universities from the late 1960s onward. The aim is to offer a critical tool for pulling apart the events, experiences, meanings and practices that are drawn together in the concept ‘crisis’, and explore how they are transformed by the power of a concept that is at the same time singular and universal.

• Jordheim, Helge (2025). THE STAKES OF PHILOLOGY: REALITIES, ORIGINS, FUTURES. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 64(4), s. 30–44. doi: 10.1111/hith.70009. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  ABSTRACT What does philology mean today? And what can it do in the future? In this article, I respond to these questions by performing—again—a “return to philology,” as Paul de Man proclaimed in the 1980s. To engage with the present and future of philology, I return to nineteenth‐century Germany and to some of the controversies that played out between the main proponents of the new discipline, including Gottfried Hermann, August Boeckh, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ulrich von Wilamowitz‐Moellendorf. This was the time and place where philology came into its own and some of the discipline's stakes were spelled out for the first time. These stakes were both methodological and theoretical, phenomenological and ontological, and can be discussed according to their three main concerns: the struggle for the real, the possibility of origins, and the futures of the past. Invoking “Philology Now,” I argue, means bringing these stakes back into our discussion about history and theory.

• Jordheim, Helge (2023). When is the Anthropocene? A Historian’s Perspective. I Münster, Ursula; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Schroer, Sara Asu (Red.), Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403624. s. 133–170. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Anthropocene - the era of humans - refers to a time when humanity has left its indelible stamp on the planet, including its geology and biogeochemistry. Understanding the Anthropocene, where the risk of irreversible and catastrophic ecological damage looms on the horizon, is a daunting task and solutions seem to be difficult to come by. What we offer in this book consists of fifteen perspectives on the Anthropocene written by scholars with backgrounds in over a dozen academic disciplines - archaeology, biology, geology, cultural history, literature, art history, science and technology studies, anthropology, political ecology, geography and law. Together, they offer tools enabling us to grasp the Anthropocene as a multifaceted phenomenon that requires attention from across the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Unlike most academic texts, these chapters are written in a personal and engaging style indicating not only that the Anthropocene is a worthy subject of scholarly attention, but that its implications are existentially important to the authors, who are not just researchers, but also global citizens.

• Jordheim, Helge (2023). The Manifesto, The Timeline, and The Memory Site: The 22 JULY 2011 Attacks in Norway and The Chronopolitics of Genre. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. doi: 10.1111/hith.12329. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  ABSTRACT In addition to being heinous crimes, acts of terrorism are complex chronopolitical events. Perpetrators, victims, survivors, families, and authorities manage their relationship to the events by engaging with and giving shape to time, or, rather, to a plurality of times. To perform this time work, they avail themselves of different genres, which serve as chronopolitical tools. This article discusses three such genres: the manifesto, the timeline, and the memorial site. These genres belong not only to different phases of the terror attacks but also to different actors. They are used to shape temporal progression in ways that enable specific forms of action, survival, and memory. The article takes the 22 July 2011 attacks in Norway as an example to map and analyze the role of these chronopolitical genres in managing the multiple times of terror.

• Bastian, Michelle; Flatø, Emil; Baraitser, Lisa; Jordheim, Helge; Salisbury, Laura & Dooren, Thom van (2023). Ethical conference economies? Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online. Geographical Journal. ISSN 0016-7398. doi: 10.1111/geoj.12557. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), and greater accessibility, virtual events promise to address many of the issues that in‐person events take for granted. In this article, we draw on a community economies framing from geographers J.K. Gibson‐Graham to argue for centring the work of convening within efforts to explore reparative possibilities within the academy. Reflecting on the changing costs arising from moving an originally in‐person conference series online, we argue for embracing the opportunities offered. We explore how organising teams might enact alternative values through allocating the material, financial and labour resources traditionally spent for these events differently. We look particularly at how our carbon and financial costs changed, and how, by retaining a fee, we were able to allocate our budgets in ways which redistributed the surplus to participants in need (rather than bolster conference centre profits). We then explore what these changing costs meant in terms of our attendance levels across career stages and geographical locations. Looking at whether our experiment resulted in increased support for online events, we examine the continued ambivalence felt for the virtual. Finally, while we largely explore the benefits of online options, our last section urges caution over assumptions that this move will result in a more sustainable academia, particularly given the intensifications surrounding high quality streaming video, and suggest that we treat current trends as ongoing experiments, rather than solutions.

• Jordheim, Helge; Regazzoni, Lisa & Akker, Chiel van den (2023). Introduction. On the Need for Theory in History. Journal of the Philosophy of History. ISSN 1872-261X. 17(3), s. 349–356. doi: 10.1163/18722636-12341509. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wigen, Einar; Azak, Nalan; Eskild, Ingrid; Jordheim, Helge; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Temporal technologies of epidemics. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 48(4). doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien; Jordheim, Helge & Ytreberg, Espen (2022). The Rise of Health: A Collocation Analysis of Conceptual Changes in News Discourse, 1950–2010. Contributions to the History of Concepts. ISSN 1807-9326. 17(2), s. 18–40. doi: 10.3167/choc.2022.170202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2022). Natural histories for the anthropocene: Koselleck's theories and the possibility of a history of lifetimes. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(3), s. 391–425. doi: 10.1111/hith.12268. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article, I offer a rereading of Reinhart Koselleck that puts his work at the center of ongoing debates about how to write histories that can account for humanity's changed and changing relationship to our natural environment—or, in geological terms, to our planet. This involves engaging with the urgent realities of climate crisis and the geological agency of humans, which, in current discourse, are often designated by the concept of the Anthropocene. This article asks whether Koselleck's essays from the 1970s and after contain ideas, arguments, theories, and methods that may prove useful in collapsing “the age-old humanist distinction between natural history and human history,” to use Dipesh Chakrabarty's phrase. Indeed, the unlikeliness of providing a positive answer to this question is itself an important motivation for raising it. The other motivation is the supposition that the difficulties in bridging the gap between human and natural history fundamentally has to do with time and, more specifically, with the divergent temporal frameworks governing different historiographies, which are in part practiced in natural sciences such as geology, biology, and meteorology. The first part of this article discusses what one could call Koselleck's temporal anthropocentrism, which was handed down in German historicism and hermeneutics from the eighteenth century onward in the shape of what I call the Vitruvian Man of Time. In Koselleck's work, this superimposition of the human onto the multiple lifetimes of the planet is most clearly expressed in his claim about the “denaturalization” of history at the beginning of modernity. The second part of this article observes a shift in Koselleck's engagement with nature beginning in the 1980s; this shift is presented in terms of a “renaturalization.” The theoretical and methodological tool for this re-entanglement of the times of history and the times of nature is his theory of multiple times. Originally limited to the human, this theory rises to the task of including an increasing number of natural times that are no longer perceived as stable, static, and slow but as continuously accelerating due to “human use.” In conclusion, this article suggests that Koselleck's work offers the framework for a theory of “lifetimes” that can replace modernist history as platform for writing new natural histories for the future.

• Jordheim, Helge; Beke, Laura Op de; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Borgesius, Leonoor Zuiderveen; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(1), s. 4–26. doi: 10.1111/hith.12250. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bastian, Michelle; Flatø, Emil Henrik; Baraitser, Lisa; Jordheim, Helge; Salisbury, Laura & Dooren, Thom Van (2022). ‘What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality. Geo: Geography and Environment. 9(2). doi: 10.1002/geo2.114. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Geography, like many other disciplines, is reckoning with the carbon intensity of its practices and rethinking how activities such as annual meetings are held. The Climate Action Task Force of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), for example, was set up in 2019 and seeks to transform the annual conference in light of environmental justice concerns. Mirroring shifts in geographic practice across the globe, these efforts point to a need to understand how new opportunities for knowledge production, such as online events, can operate effectively. In this paper, we offer suggestions for best practice in virtual spaces arising from our Material Life of Time conference held in March 2021, a two-day global event that ran synchronously across 15 time zones. Given concerns about lack of opportunities for informal exchanges at virtual conferences, or the ‘coffee break problem’, we designed the event to focus particularly on opportunities for conviviality. This was accomplished through a focus on three key design issues: the spatial, the temporal, and the social. We review previous work on the benefits and drawbacks of synchronous and asynchronous online conference methods and the kinds of geographic communities they might support. We then describe our design approach and reflect on its effectiveness via a variety of feedback materials. We show that our design enabled high delegate satisfaction, a sense of conviviality, and strong connections with new colleagues. However, we also discuss the problems with attendance levels and external commitments that hampered shared time together. We thus call for collective efforts to support the ‘event time’ of online meetings, rather than expectations to fit them around everyday tasks. Even so, our results suggest that synchronous online events need not result in geographical exclusions linked to time-zone differences, and we outline further recommendations for reworking the spacetimes of the conference.

• Jordheim, Helge & Ytreberg, Espen (2021). After supersynchronisation: How media synchronise the social. Time & Society. ISSN 0961-463X. 30(3), s. 402–422. doi: 10.1177/0961463X211012507. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The multiple nature of time has by now been well established across a wide range of scholarly traditions in the humanities and social sciences. The article takes that insight as a starting point, in order to discuss the tools, work, sites and contestations involved in common temporal frameworks and structures that cross and join together time’s multiplicities. We thus articulate and discuss key components of synchronisation, a concept with significant potential for understanding common temporalities and social orders. Our emphasis is particularly on media, their technological and representational affordances for synchronisation. The article’s approach to social and mediated times presents an alternative to Hartmut Rosa and François Hartog’s influential theories about the temporal configuration of the present historical moment. Their understanding of the present tends more towards unity and uniformity, particularly by means of chronology. We follow Luhmann in arguing that ‘there is no supersynchronization’ producing such privileged, unitary temporal orders. We propose pursuing an understanding of both present and past through investigations of synchronisation itself, which always exists in plural, always involves different synchronisations in competition with each other, is subject to social and historical contingencies. The article combines theoretical and conceptual arguments with historical and contemporary cases. We investigate the synchronisation of national collectives by means of broadcast media, of individuals in everyday life by means of social media, and the recalibration of various contemporary media to a global scale in order to tackle the issue of climate change. These cases move from past and relatively comprehensive forms of synchronisation, via more localised forms today, to highly uncertain and heterogeneous ones in the future.

• Jordheim, Helge (2021). Multiple Times and the Stratigraphies of History. Логос. ISSN 0869-5377. 31(4), s. 95–118. doi: 10.22394/0869-5377-2021-4-95-116. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2021). Tidens hengsler. Historieteoretiske refleksjoner om synkronisering og skalering fra Beda til i dag. TEMP-tidsskrift for historie. ISSN 1904-5565. 22, s. 37–61. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2021). Mending Shattered Time: 22 July in Norwegian Collective Memory. I Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138294608. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Sattel, Schicht, Schwelle, Schleuse. Kosellecks paradoxe Sprachbildlichkeit der pluralen Zeiten. Koselleck und das Bild. Bielefeld University Press (BiUP). ISSN 9783837654189. doi: 10.14361/9783839454183-006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Naturphilosophie als "innere Naturgeschichte". Henrich Steffens in Freiberg. I Schnyder, Peter (Red.), Erdgeschichten. Literatur und Geologie im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann. ISSN 9783826070464. s. 71–90. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Å sette tiden sammen igjen: Tidslinjer etter 22. junli. I Gjelsvik, Anne (Red.), Bearbeidelser. 22. juli i ord og bilder. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215046129. s. 17–34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Shaw, David Gary (2020). Opening Doors: A Turn to Knowledge. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 59(4), s. 3–18. doi: 10.1111/hith.12179. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Lively debates have taken place about what the history of knowledge can offer that other approaches cannot. In this article we argue that the advantage of the history of knowledge is its capacity to open up new possibilities for historical work and reflection that are deeply infused with interdisciplinary perspectives and tools. This is important because, within both the academy and in society and politics more widely, we are actually within a knowledge turn or moment in which the stakes of delivering and challenging knowledge are unusually high. At the level of events, experiences, and concepts, the knowledge turn needs examination. The articles in this theme issue also show how issues within the theory of history and the theory of knowledge are ripe for deeper understanding, as both explore deeply issues and doubts about such things as historical development and progress and the existence and importance of knowledge itself, its relation to science and humanistic endeavors, as well as its European, Western, and global historical contexts. These articles also advance a knowledge toolkit of great attraction for historians of all subfields: notions like disknowledge, delay, conceptual and logical comparison, media, materiality, information, and networks are dynamic and productive. In the end, we argue that historical knowledge is itself a key concept that is open to present and past, necessarily constructive in orientation, and skeptical in approach without denying that some types of knowing are more powerful than others and that knowledge as a concept and topic strengthens our interdisciplinary historical and cultural work.

• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Die Moderne als Synchronisierung der Geschichte. Begriffs- und gattungsgeschichtliche Perspektiven. I Hühn, Helmut & Schneider, Sabine (Red.), Eigenzeiten der Moderne. Wehrhahn Verlag. ISSN 9783865257659. s. 65–94. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2019). Return to Chronology. I Tamm, Marek & Olivier, Laurent (Red.), Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350065086. s. 43–56. doi: 10.5040/9781350065116.ch-002. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2019). The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds. I Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (Red.), Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781789200362. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvw04kj6.27. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup & Jordheim, Helge (2019). The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge. I Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (Red.), Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781789200362. s. 1–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Welten in Übersetzung - oder Plädoyer für ein Lexikon des Plurals. I Schmieder, Falko & Toepfer, Georg (Red.), Wörter aus der Fremde. Begriffgeschichte als Übersetzungsgeschichte.. Kulturverlag Kadmos. ISSN 9783865993731. s. 283–288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Keeping the ‘Ism’ in ‘cosmopolitanism’ - Wieland and the origins of cosmopolitan discourse. Journal of Political Ideologies. ISSN 1356-9317. 23(3), s. 299–319. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2018.1503770. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). The printed work as a site of knowledge circulation. Dialogues, systems, and the question of genre, Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge. Nordic Academic Press. ISSN 9789188661289. s. 232–253. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Encyclopedia. I Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (Red.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350038417. s. 189–194. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Keeping the ‘Ism’ in ‘Cosmopolitanism’ – Wieland and the Origins of Cosmopolitan Discourse. Journal of Political Ideologies. ISSN 1356-9317. 23(3), s. 299–319. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2018.1503770. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (2018). The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge. I Jordheim, Helge (Red.), Conceptualizing The World. An Investigation Across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781789200362. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvw04kj6.4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Making Universal Time: Tools of Synchronization. I Jordheim, Helge; Bjørnstad, Hall & regent-susini, anne (Red.), Universal History and the Making of the Global. Routledge. ISSN 9781138316195. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Wigen, Einar (2018). Conceptual Synchronisation: From Progress to Crisis. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. ISSN 0305-8298. 46(3), s. 421–439. doi: 10.1177/0305829818774781. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Asdal, Kristin & Jordheim, Helge (2018). Texts on the Move: Textuality and Historicity Revisited. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 57(1), s. 56–74. doi: 10.1111/hith.12046. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Making universal time. I Jordheim, Helge; Bjørnstad, Hall & regent-susini, anne (Red.), Universal History and the Making of the Global. Routledge. ISSN 9781138316195. doi: 10.4324/9780429455810-10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Zukunft in der Altersforschung des 20. Jahrhunderts. I Hölscher, Lucian (Red.), Die Zukunft des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dimensionen einer historischen Zukunftsforschung.. Campus Verlag. ISSN 9783593506951. s. 159–178. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Krisetid. Introduksjon til en begrepshistorisk forståelse av krisebegrepet. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Begrepshistorie som idehistorisk praksis. I Aasgaard, Reidar; Krefting, Ellen Marie & Schaanning, Espen (Red.), Grep om fortiden: Perspektiver og metoder i idéhistorie. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202565282. s. 35–52. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Philology and the Problem of Culture. I Lönnroth, Harry (Red.), Philology Matters! Essays on the Art of Reading Slowly. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004315112. s. 1–20. doi: 10.1163/9789004349568. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At present philology seems to find itself in a decisive moment, from which there can be different ways forward. By taking two of the most recent attempts at reinvigorating and even reinventing philology, Turner’s Philology and Pollock, Elman, and Chang’s World Philology as a starting point, this article offers a retrospective glance at some of the investments made in the philological tradition in the last two hundred years. At the core of this tradition, I argue, is “the problem of culture”, which connects often very diverse authors and contributions from the early 19th century onward. Rereading some of the canonical texts in the history of the philology, by Friedrich Ast, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de Saussure, Paul de Man and others, I claim that they are involved in similar ventures to liberate or protect the study of language and literature, in all their different forms, from the dominance of broad cultural categories, linking language to identity, politics, and ethics, and thus restricting dramatically the possibilities of language to produce new knowledge. Finally, the article returns to the present and asks what these rereadings could mean for how we see the future of philology and the philology of the future.

• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Livstider. Tidsmangfold i det 21. århundre. I Salomon, Kim (Red.), Tiden. Makadam Förlag. ISSN 9789170612046. s. 131–148. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Da Time utga sitt dobbeltnummer om helse i februar 2015, var forsideillutrasjonen et close-up av et babyansikt, med teksten: «This baby could live to be 142 years old». Nummeret er i sin helhet viet det magasinet selv kaller «The Longevity Report», som presenterer «the new data on how best to live a longer happier life». Dette essayet er i sin helhet et forsøk på å utvikle måter å tenke rundt denne situasjonen på, i et format som kunne kalles kulturanalytisk eller kulturhistorisk. I den forstand er dobbeltnummeret av Time både syptom og diagnose, som formidler en erfaring av pågående og aksellererende historisk endring. Et mulig resultat av denne endringsprosessen synes å innebære et brudd med selve den temporale ordenen, strukturen av tidserfaringer, som har vært karakteristisk for vestlige samfunn siden 1700-tallet – det som den franske historikeren Francois Hartog kaller «det moderne tidsregimet». 5 Dette tidsregimet, som den moderne verden for øvrig, hvis vi skal tro Carstensen, er «av og for de unge». Men hvis aldersammensetningen i samfunndet endrer seg dramatisk, er det all grunn til å tro at det samme vil skje med «tidsregimet», måtene vi erfarere og strukturer forholdet mellom fortid, nåtid og fremtid på. Målet med dette essayet er ikke finne belegg for denne tesen, men snarere å diskutere hva slags begreper og teoretiske innganger vi trenger for å formulere den. Rammen for diskusjonen er begrepet «livstider». © 2017 Makadam Förlag

• Jordheim, Helge (2017). In the Layer Cake of Time.Thoughts on a Stratigraphic Model of Intellectual History. I Goering, Timothy (Red.), Ideengeschichte heute. Traditionen und Perspektiven.. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837639247. s. 195–214. doi: 10.14361/9783839439241-008. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this essay, I set off from a presumption that many of the theoretical and methodological debates which have been dominating the field of what we – loosely and without large claims to epistemological or sociological precision – could call “intellectual history” are really debates about how to deal with time in history. Time should here be understood both in a chronological sense, referring to the succession of years, decades, even centuries, as well as to precise historical dates, which are evoked in the study of human thought and language, and in a phenomenological sense, as the organization of temporal experiences according to specific patterns and figures, such as periodizations, narratives of progress or decline, growth and extinction, as well as speeds and rhythms, continuities and breaks.

• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Europe at Different Speeds: Asynchronicities and Multiple Times in European Conceptual History. I Steinmetz, Willbald; Fernandéz-Sebastián, Javier & Freeden, Michael (Red.), Conceptual History in the European Space. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781785334825. s. 47–62. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvw04kcs.5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Over the last ten years or so we have become used to the idea and the formulation of ‘Europe at different speeds’, in terms of a conceptual and rhetorical response to the fact that the process of European integration, towards the goals of a common constitution, a common monetary system, a common foreign policy etc. have not unfolded in as a homogenous, linear and synchronous way as planned. The idea was a reaction to the unwelcome fact that some of the European countries were unwilling or indeed unable to keep up with the pace of integration set by some of the core countries. The global financial crisis of 2008, the Greek debt crisis, and most recently, the refugee or migration crisis, which hit Europe in the fall of 2015, have contributed to unveiling the multiple and often conflicting tempi and rhythms, the delays and accelerations in the Eurozone and turned them into a challenge that the EU can no longer ignore. In reaction to a speech by the British Prime Minister David Cameron, in which he announced a revision of Great Britain’s membership in the EU, the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt warned: ‘Flexibility sounds fine, but if you open up to a 28-speed Europe, at the end of the day there is no Europe at all. Just a mess.’ In other, less politically loaded contexts, this ‘mess’ is called historical contingency, or simply history. The phrase ‘Europe at different speeds’ is not just a rhetorical device, but corresponds to a fundamental historical reality: that the European countries have indeed never moved at the same speed, or, in other words, they have never been completely synchronous in their social and political development. On the contrary, the history of Europe, including the history of Europe’s relationship to the world at large, has always been a history of temporal differences, of forwardness and backwardness, relative to a given goal, of lagging behind and catching up, relative to a perceived avantgarde. Europe has ‘multiple modernities’, to use a term from S.N. Eisenstadt, or, with an even more general argument, is less dependent on the highly ambiguous idea of ‘modernity’: Europe has ‘multiple temporalities’. 3 Often these various political and social times are even recognized and given labels, such as the German Sonderweg, the Nordic model, British insularity, or they are documented, for instance in the EU progress reports. This chapter appears in a larger collection published by © Berghahn Books (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SteinmetzConceptual).

• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Synchronizing the World: Synchronism as Historiographical Practice, Then and Now. History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History. ISSN 2159-9785. 7(1), s. 59–95. doi: 10.5406/historypresent.7.1.0059. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The final version of this research has been published in History of the Present. © 2017 University of Illinois Press

• Jordheim, Helge (2016). Livstider - Livsvitenskap og nye tider i det 21.århundre. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. s. 262–273. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2016-03-09. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2016). Historiemedvetande, tidsregimer och synkronisering. I Fareld, Victoria & Ruin, Hans (Red.), Historiens hemtvist, bind I: Den historiska tidens former. Makadam Förlag. ISSN 9789170612039. s. 163–190. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  © 2016 Makadam Förlag

• Jordheim, Helge (2015). Transformative Pasts, Transformations of the Future, and the Question of the Present. I Stordalen, Terje & Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (Red.), The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future: Collective Remembering and Identity Formation. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998081. s. 71–91. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2015). The Nature of Civilization: The Semantics of Civilization and Civility in Scandinavia. I Jordheim, Helge & Pernau, Margrit (Red.), Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198745532. s. 25–44. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Pernau, Margrit (2015). Quanqiu shiyu zhong de gainianshi [A global history of concepts: Civilization, civilizing and emotions]. International Social Science Journal. ISSN 0020-8701. 32, s. 129–138. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISBN 9781685712433. 494 s. doi: 10.53288/0484.1.00. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, or come to a standstill during crisis, modern historiography is unable to come up with meaningful narratives about mankind as the sixth extinction event, and calendars are insufficient as tools for societal and political change. Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms presents an alternative framework for studying lives and times, and the relationships between them. Building on post-war theories of history, as well as several historical sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, history of science, and medical history, Lifetimes integrates approaches from anthropology, game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical heritage studies, science & technology studies, and critical time studies. Times are understood as always existing in plural, as embodied and emergent—in things, in assemblages of things, and in the relations between things. Among them are the lives of humans, but also the lives of viruses, plants, animals, rocks, computers, nations, concepts, policies, technologies, infrastructures, etc. Lifetimes explores theoretical foundations while at the same time developing them through case studies in individual chapters. The result is a bottom-up theory of temporal multiplicity, conceptually and theoretically open enough to be productive across various academic disciplines. Rather than discussing how different disciplines relate to time, the authors in this edited collection present a theoretically sustained, empirically diverse range of cases, in which times in plural become politically and historically salient. Out of these case studies a new theory emerges: a theory of lifetimes.

• Jordheim, Helge (2023). Berlin. Byen og historien. Forlaget Press. ISBN 9788232804160. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (2019). Conceptualizing the World. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781789200362. 397 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (2019). Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781789200362. 397 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Bjørnstad, Hall & regent-susini, anne (2018). Universal History and the Making of the Global. Routledge. ISBN 9781138316195. 258 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Conceptualizing The World. An Investigation Across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781789200362. 408 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Bjørnstad, Hall & regent-susini, anne (2018). Universal History and the Making of the Global. Routledge. ISBN 9781138316195. 250 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Pernau, Margrit (2015). Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198745532. 351 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Eliassen, Knut Ove; Jordheim, Helge & Nexø, Tue Andersen (2015). Europæisk litteratur 1500‑1800. Bind II. Staten. Fra utopi til bureaukrati. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISBN 9788771244977. 263 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nilsen, Håvard & Jordheim, Helge (2014). Politisk frihet. Res Publica. ISBN 9788282260435. 475 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2014). Hva skal vi med humaniora? Rapport om de humanistiske fagenes situasjon i Norge. Fritt Ord. ISBN 9788299655439. 172 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2014). Politisk frihet. Res Publica. ISBN 9788282260435. 474 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Sandve, Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad; Boasson, Elin Lerum; Mjaaland, Marius Timmann; Skjelkvåle, Brit Lisa & Moen, Kåre [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). What can the Centre for Global Sustainability do for UiO – and the other way around? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Esborg, Line & Jordheim, Helge (2024). Naturhistoriens etterliv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grünfeld, Nina; Jordheim, Helge; Hirsi, Hamza & Farmariello, Ugo (2024). Fredagspanelet, NRK p2. [Radio]. NRK P2 og TV. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Vil flere krigsfilmer hjelpe på traumet etter krigen? Er fysiske bøker i skolen en selvfølge? Er tradwives-trenden en anerkjennelse av at husmor-rolla er ordentlig arbeid?

• Bjermeland, Monica; Brevik, Lisbeth M.; Blikstad-Balas, Marte & Jordheim, Helge (2022). Språk er livsviktig - ferdig snakka. [Internet]. Podcast Universitetsplassen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rosa, Hartmut; Jordheim, Helge & Evenshaug, Aurora Jacobsen (2022). Hartmut Rosa: Mellom trangen til fart og lengselen etter resonans – danning i et akselerert samfunn. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. doi: 10.18261/nnt.39.4.2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bastian, Michelle; Hassan, Robert & Jordheim, Helge (2022). Time Today. Time & Society. ISSN 0961-463X. 31(1), s. 3–5. doi: 10.1177/0961463X221089464. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2021). When is the Anthropocene? The Multiple Lifetimes of Climate and Nature Emergency. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2021). Reportasje på TV2 Nyhetene om tid under korona, med lengre intervju. [TV]. TV2 Nyhetene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Vostal, Filip (2020). Time Language in the Sciences. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Humaniora hjemmefra: Tid i koronakrisen. [Internet]. UiOs hjemmesider. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2020). Pandemipodden: Hvordan påvirker egentlig koronapandemien vår oppfatning av tid? [Internet]. SUMs hjemmesider, https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/aktuelt/a. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Wigen, Einar; Lie, Anne Kveim & Ljungberg, Erik (2020). Epidemic Times. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Wigen, Einar & Lie, Anne Kveim (2020). Epidemiens tidsorden. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva & Jordheim, Helge (2019). Multiple Times of Everpresence. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2019). Beyond Historical Time: A Theory of Lifetimes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2019). The Politics of Synchronization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2019). Historiske tider og livstider: en teori om kontinuitet og skalering. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2018). Als ob sich die Geschichte nach der Chronologie richten müßte: Periodisierung und Chronologie im Rückblick. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Berg, Siv Frøydis; Jordheim, Helge & Vidnes, Øystein (2017). Frankenstein. Litteraturhusets podkast. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Podkast laget etter arrangement på Litteraturhuset 17.03.2017.

• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Aging in the Context of New Lifetimes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Det norske minnelandskapet. I Herming, Hilde (Red.), Fast plass. Norske kvinner på sokkel. Forlaget Press. ISSN 9788232800209. s. 13–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Vange, Arild & Bordemann, Suzanne (2017). Litteraturens betydning - en kveld med Kafka. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Die Moderne als Synchronisierung der Geschichte. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). The World in and out of Sync: Looking Back at the Long 18th Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Connecting and Disconnecting Times in Print:In and Out of Sync. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2017). Synchronizing the World. Welcome Lecture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rem, Tore & Jordheim, Helge (2016). Opplysningsmannen. I Bull, Bernt & Hagtvet, Bernt (Red.), Samfunnsborgeren. Erik Rudeng 70 år. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253038803. s. 222–229. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2016). Synkroniseringen av verden. Om tidens kulturhistorie. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. s. 88–98. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2016). The Spatial Structures of Time in the 18th Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2016). Making Universal Time - Wesleyan Seminar on the Theory and Practice of History. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2015). Synchronizing the World: the Making of Progress in the 18th Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2015). Enlightenment and the Work of Synchronization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge (2015). Synchronizing the World: the Making of Progress in the 18th century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Eliassen, Knut Ove; Jordheim, Helge & Nexø, Tue Andersen (2015). Forord. Europas litteratur fra Il sacco di Roma til Den prøyssiske landrett. I Eliassen, Knut Ove; Jordheim, Helge & Nexø, Tue Andersen (Red.), Europæisk litteratur 1500‑1800. Bind II. Staten. Fra utopi til bureaukrati. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771244977. s. 7–21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nilsen, Håvard & Jordheim, Helge (2014). Forord. I Nilsen, Håvard & Jordheim, Helge (Red.), Politisk frihet. Res Publica. ISSN 9788282260435. s. 9–11. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Asdal, Kristin; Brekke, Torkel; Hvattum, Mari; Jordheim, Helge; Rem, Tore & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2014). Krise nå igjen? s. 22–23. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Asdal, Kristin; Brekke, Torkel; Hvattum, Mari; Jordheim, Helge; Rem, Tore & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2014). Humanioras muligheter. s. 4–5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Danielsen, Per Alexander Edvardsson; Jordheim, Helge; Arendt, Ada & Friis, Henrik (2025). Labelling Nature, A Study on the Semiophoric Functions of Mineral Labels. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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