Electric Horizon - A Critical Review & Analysis

Dr. Lennart Sörensson

Life Antidote – Research Division Department of Temporal Semiotics

This page hosts a critical review and interpretive analysis of Electric Horizon, written by Dr. Lennart Sörensson for Life Antidote’s Research Division, Department of Temporal Semiotics.

The paper examines Electric Horizon as a work preoccupied with time—specifically, with what happens when time stops behaving the way we were promised it would. Instead of moving confidently forward, it loops, hesitates, and occasionally stalls altogether.

Rather than asking whether Electric Horizon is nostalgic or futuristic, the analysis is interested in how it occupies the uncomfortable space between the two: a present that feels suspended, repetitive, and oddly calm about it.

The review draws on ideas associated with Hegel, Lacan, and Žižek, though it begins from experiences most people recognize without needing to name them:

• The sense that progress keeps happening, but nothing really changes
• The comfort of repetition paired with the suspicion that something is missing
• The feeling of waiting for a future that never quite arrives

In more theoretical terms (which the paper eventually supplies), these experiences involve contradiction, desire, and the persistence of belief even after belief has lost its force.

For details on the Electric Horizon project and ways to listen, see www.rajchelmusic.com

Dr. Lennart Sörensson is a Research Fellow with Life Antidote’s Research Division. His work focuses on how philosophical problems—contradiction, desire, failure, repetition—have a habit of reappearing in everyday life, particularly in music, media, and cultural artifacts that appear deceptively simple.

He is especially interested in situations where nothing dramatic seems to happen, yet something still feels unresolved.