Denys Bakirov, 27, is a lecturer at the University of Kharkiv, Ukraine who currently works as a researcher at Metamoderna in Sweden. When war broke out on February 24th, his village north of Kharkiv right on the border with Russia was occupied by the Russian Army. Denys was forcefully deported from Ukraine to Russia. […]
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Last week, Daniel Görtz of Metamoderna gave a speech at the Elevate Festival in Austria where he was invited as a keynote speaker. The main questions touched upon were: – How can we create better processes for personal development? – How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world? – What is the unique
“Solarpunk can do what merely intellectual arguments of better governance, of democracy, even of ecological collapse and the natural sciences, cannot: entice the average person, in particular, the established and new middle classes from across the world. If this potential is not tapped into in liberal and democratic societies, wide swathes of global populations will
In my previous article, I tried to lay out the argument for solarpunk as a deeply liberal, participatory movement for ecological sustainability / resilience / regenerativity. With its aesthetics, its design patterns, its budding architectural visions, its spirit of reconciliation between nature and tech, the solarpunk movement bears massive transformative potential. If we want societies
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Never managed to plough through Nordic Ideology? Does reading hurt your eyes? Don’t despair, Nordic Ideology is now available as audio book. Thanks to the help and financial support of our friend, Aurora Quinn-Elmore, both of Hanzi’s books are now available in audio format to be downloaded and listened to anywhere you please. Aurora Quinn-Elmore
“Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one
Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one of my previous
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The four main reasons why the Alternative in Denmark failed: 1) There were no measures to adequately counter power players playing dirty and hard, 2) it became just another green party, 3) it was diluted by pomos, 4) and its cultural capital left. Below you can read Hanzi Freinacht’s full analysis and hopefully learn a
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In my book The Listening Society, I mention the Danish political party The Alternative (in Danish, “Alternativet”). Although the party never was thoroughly metamodern, it did contain many metamodern elements and showed some very promising signs of becoming a new kind of party. Unfortunately, things didn’t go very well. The Alternative was founded in 2013 by former Danish
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Psychelics associated with increased non-human animal solidarity. Classic Psychedelics and Human–Animal Relations www.mdpi.com Previous research has found associations between classic psychedelic use and nature-relatedness, but the link between classic psychedelic use and human–animal relations remains largely unexplored. Using data representative of the US adult population, with regard to age, sex and ethnicity (N =….
