Hypermodernity – the political is personal

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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.

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Hypermodernity and cultures as aesthetic individuality reservoirs

The first in a series of essays on the effects of the disintegration of the belief in progress, discussing the modern cultural phenomenon of short-term nostalgia, the 20-year revival, leading to the concept of the “big now”, cultures as identity reservoirs, hypermodernity and individuality as an end in and of itself.

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The Tragedy of Culture and the Liberalization of the Self

Using ideas from Georg Simmel’s 1911 essay on “The Tragedy of Culture” and the continued influence of neo-liberal thinking to elaborate a paradox at the heart of today’s disjointed and hyper-personal cultural discourse: The mechanism we use to identify ourselves and others in society also presents the biggest obstacle to having a healthy and effective societal discourse.

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