Johan Klingborg Research Officer
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Name and title: Johan KlingborgResearch Officer
ORCID0000-0001-8713-6055 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Culture and Aesthetics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room A208Frescativägen 22B-26
Postal address Institutionen för kultur och estetik106 91 Stockholm
About me
PhD in Literary Studies. Research Officer at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. Literary critic at Swedish daily Expressen.
I conduct research at the intersection of literary history and media history. I am particularly interested in the conditions for reading and writing in relation to the media ecology of the 20th century.
My dissertation and first book, Verkar film: 1930-talslitteraturen i det svenska filmnätverket ("Seemingly Film: 1930s Literature in the Swedish Film Network", 2024), examines how Swedish literature was reshaped when moving images—following technological, discursive, institutional, and architectonic developments—became a comprehensive aspect in people’s everyday lives. This film network brought about a biopolitics of the eye aimed at creating a homogenized observer within the population, who could serve both the emerging Swedish welfare state and an accelerating capitalist consumer culture. Through close-readings of works by Karin Boye, Artur Lundkvist, Eyvind Johnson, Josef Kjellgren, and Erik Asklund, the book argues that the literature of the 1930s came to engage critically and productively with the network, while simultaneously incorporating—thematically as well as formally—its regulatory mechanisms.

