Open Access“Drengen, som ikke kunne holde vejret under vand” – en analyse af mediets funktion i manifestationen af “Evak”
Author(s) -
Lea Laura Michelsen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nordisk tidsskrift for informationsvidenskab og kulturformidling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-2931
pISSN - 2245-294X
DOI - 10.7146/ntik.v6i2.99059
Subject(s) - queer , temporality , structuring , function (biology) , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , epistemology , biology , political science , law , evolutionary biology
This article explores how main characters Isak and Even in the Norwegian web series SKAM (Season 3) cultivate “Evak”. I investigate how different kinds of media function as a means for Isak and Even to explore a different kind of temporal structuring: queer time. I do this through the concepts of media and temporality and in a theoretical framework composed by media philosophy and queer studies. I argue that by residing in different time warps, effected by these mediations, Isak and Even step out of a heteronormative structuring of time. I thereby conclude that they, in ecstasy, manifest themselves as Evak, reclaiming their “here and now” earlier disturbed by heteronormative life forms.