“The Great Spirit is in all things. He is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us…..That which we put into the ground she returns to us.” —Big Thunder Wabanaki, Algonquin The following is an extract of the second chapter from Hanzi Freinacht’s […]

Hanzi Freinacht’s book The 6 Hidden Patterns of History is not coming out any time soon. Fortunately, the theoretical framework is locked and ready and Emil Ejner Friis has been presenting the theories behind the book in the Metamodern Master Class to great applause. The course is going to focus entirely on The 6 Hidden Patterns and

“Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category”                                                                       —Theodor Adorno The following is an extract of the first chapter from Hanzi

“Stage theory… Is BS. Always was. And it is colonial as hell.” —Nora Bateson   The following is an extract of the introduction chapter from Hanzi Freinacht’s unpublished book ‘The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: A Metamodern Guide to World History’. The book is not coming out anytime soon, but a webinar on the topic

Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. I’ve speculated on the Structure of Metamodern Religion in terms of its philosophical and coordination layers. But how might all of this make a difference in your life?  In order for Metamodern Religion to become a lived reality and actually have an impact on people’s lives, it needs

Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. Global problems from climate change to arms races need global, or better yet, planetary solutions. Religion may be able to defeat Moloch, where all international treaties have failed before. If it is to address the crises outlined in the previous part, Metamodern religion needs to enable Cosmo-local coordination. 

Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. In the previous part of this series, I have presented a broad definition of religion as the social fabric that orients culture through integration. I also made the case that in order to solve the Metacrisis and the Meaning Crisis, we will need to replace our deficient Western

Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. I’m bored by both relativistic nihilism and naive magical thinking. I refuse to stop trying to deeply connect with others and nature, without believing in New Age fantasies. And it seems like I’m not alone. Over the last few years, I have found many others on the same

A week-long introduction to metamodernism with Hanzi Freinacht, Emil Ejner Friis and Daniel Görtz Metamodernism? The philosophy and culture emerging at the social singularity where hackers, hippies, and hipsters meet and co-create. Stakes rise, potentials abound, but so do risks and pitfalls of this new cultural and economic landscape. Metamodernism marries critical thinking and ethical commitment to inner

Neuroatypical people often have a mixture of very strong and very weak sides compared to the average. This puts them in a strange category besides the conventional hierarchies of society. Why are so many metamodernists neuroatypical? As an author on the topic of metamodernism I have not been able not to notice the extreme over-representation