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Enaction with Emil Friis: Metamodernism as Radically Progressive

**PATREON EXCLUSIVE #5** Unlocked In this loose wide-ranging conversation Brent Cooper and Emil Friis (aka Hanzi Freinacht) discuss the essential progressive baselines (ie. ‘green social liberalism’) of metamodernism as a political philosophy and hopeful social movement. Orienting the discussion from Cooper’s article ‘Metamodernism and the Left’, we establish the lineage of metamodernism as being deeply

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Designing Smarter Societies: AI, Convergence, and the Cities of Tomorrow, Today!

***PATREON EXCLUSIVE*** #2 Brent Cooper interviews architect-scholar Christopher Kirwan about his book Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence (2020), which Cooper edited and contributed research to. Borne out of a decade long US-China collaboration between the authors,, Kirwan and Fu are conscious of the trends of smart cities and the horizon of positive human influence that

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Battle of the Bards 2: Breaking Blockades on Discourse

***PATREON EXCLUSIVE*** #3 Brent Cooper and Alexander Bard have a generative conversation ranging from class conflict, redistribution, modern monetary theory, culture war, Jordan Peterson, Game B, social media practice, to the geopolitics of the Israel apartheid situation, Israel lobby, and distinctions around anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Bard and Cooper constructively disagree on many things, but on

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“Metamodernism is constantly misunderstood, particularly in its political meaning and capacity. Brent Cooper presents an …

“Metamodernism is constantly misunderstood, particularly in its political meaning and capacity. Brent Cooper presents an introduction to the unheard history of metamodernism and a defense of a transpartisan political agenda that is by and large only proposed and supported by the contemporary “leftist” movements. The misdirectional nature of such terms is addressed, proposing a new

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