[The messianic horizon] Review of Göran Rosenberg, Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek (Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 2021). Citation: Josephson, Olle (2022) “Den messianska horisonten”, review in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys , issue 14, pp. 109–116. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.14.R3

Technological innovation and private entrepreneurship are 'change-makers' increasingly counted upon to avert social and environmental crisis. However, as crisis deepens into the possibility of catastrophe, given the likes of resource wars and climate change, the quest for solutions is morphing into a requirement for near-salvation. The situation is an odd one. Messianic hopes are being invested...

The work of the textual critic has long centered in the task of collating manuscripts, counting variants, and computing the results for the purpose of placing manuscripts in their proper text -types. This process is essential for building a critical text. However, as important as this , work may be, dealing statistically with variant readings can result in a neglect of the contribution the vari...

This essay considers the uncannily persistent figure of the Mechanical Turk, a spectre that haunts medieval theology, early modern theatre and modern philosophy alike. In all three cases, it functions as the mechanical, inhuman antitype of a futurity figured as meaningful and human. These attributes are materialized also in the Renaissance ‘mammet’ or mechanical puppet, an object whose name bea...