What is Metamodernism?
Posted Apr 17, 2020 By Gregg Henriques.
If a year ago someone asked me (Gregg) the question: “What is metamodernism?” I would have answered that I never heard the term. It turns out, however, that it refers is a new, powerful emerging movement that brilliantly captures my basic sensibility.
What is Metamodernism?
Posted on the Metamoderna website.
To sum up, one can contrast the metamodern ideas against the modern and postmodern ones...
5 things that make you metamodern
by Hanzi Freinacht, published 16 February, 2015
First of all, any true metamodernist must also be a postmodernist. If you do not understand and depart from the postmodern critique of knowledge, science, philosophy, art and consciousness, you cannot really claim to be metamodern. If you have a general disliking of all things postmodern, guess what, you cannot be metamodern. This being said, metamodernists are quite different from postmodernists. Here’s a list of five key insights that make you metamodern – given that you are also/already postmodern.
Ten Basic Principles of Metamodernism
by Seth Abramson, posted 04/27/2015
Metamodernism is variously called a cultural paradigm, a cultural philosophy, a structure of feeling, and a system of logic. All these phrases really mean is that, like its predecessors modernism and postmodernism, metamodernism is a particular lens for thinking about the self, language, culture, and meaning — really, about everything.
METAMODERNISM: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Posted on the Queen Mob's Teahouse website by Luke Turner on 5TH JAN 2015.
Whereas postmodernism was characterised by deconstruction, irony, pastiche, relativism, nihilism, and the rejection of grand narratives (to caricature it somewhat), the discourse surrounding metamodernism engages with the resurgence of sincerity, hope, romanticism, affect, and the potential for grand narratives and universal truths, whilst not forfeiting all that we’ve learnt from postmodernism.
The metamodernism discourse is thus descriptive rather than prescriptive; an inclusive means of articulating the ongoing developments associated with a structure of feeling for which the vocabulary of postmodern critique is no longer sufficient, but whose future paths have yet to be constructed.
After Postmodernism: Eleven Metamodern Methods in the Arts
by Greg Dember posted Apr 17, 2018
Before the name existed, I had been waiting for metamodernism.
For several years I had been observing and contemplating a certain shift in culture — something that was rather hard to pinpoint but yet was unmistakably new. Something seemed to have changed in the new millennium that made it cool again to express unabashed feelings — joy, wonder, sadness, vulnerability, triumph — in our art, and in everyday life, unfettered by the ever-present ironic snark that controlled the nineties and earlier… somehow, in such a way that didn’t toss out the fun that could be had in playing with irony. I’d been hoping that someone — a journalist, an art critic or a scholar — would acknowledge this shift I’d been noticing in music, film, art literature and even the way people around us talked and joked with each other.
A summary of Bonnita Roy’s ‘Six ways to go meta’
By Jakub Simek, posted Sep 1, 2019
There is a growing acknowledgement that our technology and economy got us far and helped us to achieve unprecedented levels of progress and wellbeing, but more of the same will not get us through the bottleneck of dozens of existential risks that threaten the survival of humanity past 21st century
“Beyond” Metamodernism
by Brent Cooper, posted Apr 15, 2017
If you’re unaware of the new paradigm, you may be in the wrong conversation. Metamodernism is one of the broadest and most important ideas out there, and is a core concept of this think tank, The Abs-Tract Organization. I summarize metamodernism as a new cultural, political, scientific, and social movement representing a post-ideological, open source, globally responsive, paradox resolving, grand narrative. It is the discourse meant to replace postmodernism, and it can’t come soon enough.
The Rise of the Emergentsia Meaning-Making for the Meta-Crisis - posted Jun 21, 2019 by Brent Cooper
Rise of the Emergentsia(2) Feeling ‘Gobschmacht’ about the ‘Phase Shift’ - posted Jul 16, 2019 by Brent Cooper
Rise of the Emergentsia (3) Sensing the Source Code - posted Dec 21, 2019 by Brent Cooper
Rise of the Emergentsia (4) A Great Mindshift in the Making - posted Dec 21, 2019 by Brent Cooper
Rise of the Emergentsia (5) The Revolution Will Not Be Boring - posted Mar 27 by Brent Cooper
This article is the 5th in the profile series on the Rise of the Emergentsia, an open-source community of sagacious speakers attuned to a new stage of global evolution.
Emerge
About Emerge from whatisemerging.com.
We hope to sow the seeds for a new civilisation - we are farmers or gardeners.
We are observing and helping to give birth to a new civilisation - we are midwives.
We want a more-conscious society - we are alarm clocks or zen teachers.
We seek to co-create a more conscious society - we are collaborative innovators.
We are interested in three kinds of transformation; the self, society and emergent systemic properties of these two together - we are alchemists, or societal chefs.
We recognise that how we perceive and know and represent the world has revolutionary potential - we are artists.
We seek complex integration of diverse bodies of theory and practice - we are epistemic freedom fighters.
We want to support innovative forms of spiritual practice and inquiry that better connect us to the challenges of our time - we are conveners and hosts.
We love powerful and beautiful communication - we are drum rolls and content curators.
Rebel Wisdom
When our existing assumptions and ways of thinking break down, it's the rebels and the renegades, those who dare to think differently, who are needed to reboot the system.
In these times of change, we can no longer trust the traditional media to make sense of the world. The old gatekeepers are losing their power. A new counter culture is filling the void, driven by a great intellectual awakening. Facilitated by new technology, it’s made a new kind of conversation possible; more in-depth, more open and more democratic.
Perspectiva
Perspectiva was created because we believe efforts to change the system will continue to underachieve unless they are grounded in a deeper understanding of the immunities to change built into the paradigm. We need to work at a more subtle level to shape its evolution.
Some work on problems within particular policies
- Solve the problem!Some work on policies within particular systems
- Amend the policy!Some work on systems within particular paradigms
- Change the system!
Perspectiva works on transforming the paradigm
- Deepen the process of system change.
Metamodernity by Lene Rachel Anderson
Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it. It is a vision, an option and a possible future scenario. As a cultural code, metamodernity contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, individuality, and complex thinking. It has the potential to protect our cultures and cultural heritage as the economy, the internet and exponential technologies are going global and disrupting our current modes of societal organization and governance.
My Initial Reactions to Metamodernism by Humane Humanities Sep 8, 2019
(By Pierce Salguero, scholar of Asian medical humanities, www.piercesalguero.com)
Metamodernism typically involves an attempt to make sense of the apparently contradictory postmodern, modern, and premodern epistemes or cultural paradigms. There are at present two major approaches to this question, which can be loosely termed the developmental metamodernist school and the oscillatory metamodernist school... I would like to focus on oscillatory metamodernism, because I think that this may indeed be the very idea I have been grappling with in my teaching over the last decade or so, although I was using different names for it.
Going Meta on the Meta-Crisis - 22 Meta-Moves for the Age of Doom and Bloom by Will Franks Apr 15
To address the meta-crisis we need to make new meta-moves in various dimensions of our life. This post explores various practical ways we can do that, allowing us to overcome the underlying meta-crisis: that our psychology, society and politics are pretty awful at problem-solving and paradigm-shifting — i.e. at understanding and navigating crisis — keeping us locked into the problems and paradigms of the steadily collapsing old-world-system.
Towards a Metamodern Spirituality by Julyan Davey Jan 22
Our metamodern spiritual grand narrative should be a synthesis of all of our knowledge and understanding about the world. It should break down the centuries old division between science and religion. But we should recognise that it is always incomplete, always ripe for updating, and we should hold it lightly as the deconstructable story that we know it is.
An Introduction to Metamodernism by Philip Damico
The final and perhaps essential facet of the metamodern movement is reconstruction. As I’ve already stated, deconstructionism is a dead end for which postmodernism offers no solution. The objective of reconstructionism is simple – to not only observe, describe and interact with what isn’t, but what is... Seth Abramson writes: “If postmodernism negated the possibility of personal, local, regional, national, or international metanarratives other than those that were/are strictly dialectical, metamodernism permits us to selectively, and with eyes wide open, return to such metanarratives when they help save us from ennui, anomie, despair, or moral and ethical sloth.” If we are able to return to discussions about the world around us from a constructive perspective, from the perspective of wanting to improve ourselves and the world around us, progress will be made – progress in every way.