“Critical Parents Against Plaster”:The MMR vaccination drama as satirical parody

In this study, I propose to regard written news satire as a vital vehicle in combatting scientific disinformation. But in order to do so, we must examine the construction of spoof news. How does written news satire convey its social criticism by way of language, discourse and style? And what happens to the content? My case is a spoof article of the 1998 MMR vaccination scandal as rendered in the Danish news satirical website Rokokoposten (2015). The analysis is based on Jakobson’s communication model (1960), Raskin’s semantic model of humour (1985) together with Ermida’s (2012) and Simpson’s (2003) analyses of the discourse of satire. To this will be included a novel approach which regards satire as a kind of intralingual translation. Thus, this paper sheds light on the issue of the news satirist as a knowledge broker

“Ignorance is strength”: Representing COVID-19 Facebook experts in Danish textual news satire

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Danish textual news satire constructs its social critique of the many Facebook users whose comments during COVID-19 imitate expert statements in disregard of authoritative health science statements. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, UNESCO has proclaimed a disinfodemic of emotive narrative constructs and pseudo-science on the internet and especially in social media. As with the ruling Party’s paradoxical slogan “ignorance is strength” in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, we sense a similar trend of the public disinfodemic, but studies of this paradox in satirical publications are scarce. Thus, the goal here is to scrutinize this enigma exemplified in an article in the Danish spoof news online media of RokokoPosten in which such experts are parodied in a kind of “doublethink” style which begs critical reflection on social media credibility. Hence, such textual news satire may potentially provide a vaccine against post-truth delusions of health science as it provides immunity against the disinfodemic by its own causative agents

Liberating Bodies:Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

This special issue provides a platform for critical analysis and debates that shed light on the complex and often contradictory ways through which sexualities and capital are related to, shaped by, and constitutive of each other. It aims to provide insight into sexual politics as funda-mental technologies of power within capitalism, and how sexual oppression under capitalism fo-ments critiques of domination and communities of resistance. In this introduction, we sketch out these emerging debates as we contextualise key contemporary discussions concerning the inter-section between sexualities and capital across different fi elds. We insist on the relevance and ur-gency of these discussions, including topics such as communities and/of resistance as well as one crucial question that this issue’s forum discussion tries to address collectively, namely, “why do we put up with it all?”publishedVersio

Poetisk landskab

Steen Klitgård Povlsen skriver om flodens løb gennem ny tysk litteratur

Den afrikanske tragedie

Steen Klitgård Povlsen fremlæser en oplagt, men hidtil ikke udforsket, forbindelse mellem Friedrich Nietzsches og Karen Blixens forfatterskaber

Portræt af kunstneren som gammel sømand

Steen Klitgaard Povlsen: Portræt af kunstneren som gammel sømand

Sandheden er ikke hele sandheden

Steen Klitgård Povlsen skriver om spillet mellem fiktion og autobiografiske træk i Kirsten Thorups roman Bonsai