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 MorePart 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.
Read MoreThe 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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