Living with Ambiguity
Trying to understand why we find it so hard to live with ambiguity on a macro level while being completely okay with it in our personal lives.
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 MoreHypermodernity 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.
Read MoreCommunism and Fascism — A Short Walk Through a Berlin Neighborhood
It’s been a long while since a longer piece of writing due to life choosing to be on the very busy side. I’ve decided to just try and get back up and running with some shorter pieces before getting to the longer essays I have in the pipeline.
This first one back was inspired by a walk through my neighborhood, looking at the very present traces of two of the most extreme political systems that have ever existed and which can be found all over one and the same city - Berlin. It caused me to think about the present political hysteria and how people fling comparisons around to try and make sense of the shift we are currently living through. In essence, it made clear that traces of the past won’t help identify what the problems of the future will look like.
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.
Read MoreComplexity, Uncertainty and Our Longing for Duality
Discussing the clash between our natural instinct to break our surroundings down into dualities and the actual complexity of the universe, our world and the general uncertainty of life.
Read MoreNo More Heroes
A rant about the failure of 20th century culture and subcultures and the echoing wasteland of meaninglessness we live with today. Welcome to the apocalypse of mediocrity.
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