Tinglysning. Who cares i Peter Adolphsens roman “Brummstein”?

Søren Langager Høgh: “Tinglysning* – Who Cares in Peter Adolphsen’s novel Brummstein (2003)?”Focusing on the concept of care (including matters-of-care, ethos of care, care giver/care taker, cute [kær], sorrow, diligence and the new term GeoWei) this paper argues that Peter Adolphsen’s novel Brummstein (2003) is a speculative accomplishment in the politics of causality. The main trajectory of the novel focuses on a stone that is given the necessary space to be included in the Social, which we in an uncaring world view tend to reserve for humans. Based on Maria Puig de Bellacasa’s reading of Bruno Latour’s notion of matters-of-concern, I propose to interpret the role text is given in the practice of caring for neglected things in Brummstein as a quality of literature.* “Tinglysning” is a old Danish word used in present language of property law, meaning both 1) land registration, 2) to shed light on the thing and 3) to shed light on a concern in a political gathering i.e. literally to make things public