Axel Andersson is a writer and critic from Sweden. He holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence and his work often deals with the intersection of media, postcolonial history, and critical theory. He also writes on contemporary art and cinema. He is currently working on a project investigating the techniques of the body, media technology, and concepts of race and is the author of A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition (2010).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
An Unabashed Tour d’Horizon: Media in the 20th Century
Can deconstructing and reassembling notions of “media” and “art” lead to a new language of things?...
The Symbol Is Dead, Long Live the Symbolic
According to Warren Breckman, revolutionary romantic philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek are practicing a form of “Christian-bolshevism” that has lost its way....
Obscuring Capitalism: Vivek Chibber’s Critique of Subaltern Studies
Vivek Chibber's latest book challenges the theoretical fundaments of the influential Indian Subaltern School....
