Multiperspectivism
Multiperspectivism as a response to the stagnation of progress, and the foundation of an approach to break the deadlock at the heart of current Western politics and societies.
Read MoreHypermodernity – the political is personal
An overarching approach threading together previous essay topics to form an explanation of the impasse currently faced in most democracies through the analysis of the historical, political, cultural, ecological, and psychological aspects of the deterioration of the modern concept of progress, the current religions of progress, the loss of future, the surfacing of multi-perspectivism in societal discourse, and the socio-cultural effects of digitalization.
Read MoreThe progressive positivist paradox
Outlining the paradox at the heart of politics based on progress and the trap it creates when the concepts of rights and equality, and with them, identity, are based on a Western-scientific conception of positivist value and worth.
Read MoreThe religion of progress
Part two in a series of (hopefully) four essays discussing different aspects of the dissolution of linear time and progress. This one tries to connect the historical dots and trace how the concept of progress (and, with it, revolution) was infused with an eschatological mindset and monotheistic morality, and how this informs the current political atmosphere and the nature of our disputes. Basically, modern politics as religion.
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