Johan Örestig

is a Swedish scholar based at Umeå University.

Articles

Cover for: Revolution as accelerated modernity

Revolution as accelerated modernity

Hannah Arendt and Anselm Jappe on radical social transformation

Though their approaches are very different, Hannah Arendt and Anselm Jappe take similar positions on the ambiguities of modernity and revolution. They not only analyse the contradictions of ‘modernity’, but show that the modern situation undermines the conditions for its existence, pointing towards its own revolutionary transformation.

Cover for: The EU migrant debate as ideology

The EU migrant debate as ideology

Social rights, obligations and responsibility in the capitalist welfare state

Public debate in Sweden on EU migrants has become particularly divisive of late, reinforcing misleading notions of who is considered “deserving” of welfare and who “non-deserving”. The authors appeal for a political community based on radically different principles.

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