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 […]
Deus ex Mycelio: The Structure of Metamodern Religion I Read More »
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
A Dramatic Introduction to Metamodernism and the Philosophy of Hanzi Freinacht Read More »
Just now I remembered a story I want to tell: the most magical / divine intervention / storybook perfect moment of my life. I was invited as a guest at an international conference of activists in Canada. Because it was a meeting of mostly North American progressives, the conference was pretty tense. The typical lefty
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Sound at the Speed of Sunset is my new ambient music project. Conceptually, the album was conceived over a three month period during which I sat each day to observe the Andalusian landscape transform at sunset. It’s an exploration of the relationship between sound and emotion. If you can find the time, I recommend listening
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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
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The Andalusian mountains are so beautiful Nati & I just wrapped up a 3-month experiment: we rented a big house in the south of Spain for co-living & community-building events. For a long time, we’ve talked about owning a retreat centre. This experiment was a test: is the idea feasible economically? do we actually enjoy
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Hey folks, What does integral theory tell us about how humanity will evolve? That is the fascinating question at the center of ICON, the first “Integral Conference of North America”, coming up in May. In this short episode I’m joined by conference organizer, Tom Habib, who shares the goals of the conference, the luminaries who
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—An ironically sincere invitation to future scholars— This article was first published as an independent chapter in the book Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity, from 2021, an anthology edited by Jonathan Rowson and Layman Pascal. The following text has been slightly edited to fit the format of an online
An Open Invitation to a Metamodern Sociology Read More »
We are pleased to announce a new, graduate-level course on metamodernism with Emil Ejner Friis and Daniel Görtz. Last year’s Metamodern Masterclass was a great pleasure to design and organize. My own expectations were easily surpassed. All tickets sold out, reviews were positive, students learned advanced metamodern theory, teachers developed their skills and perspectives, and new networks
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Since I ventured into this crazy space of metamodern hackers, hipsters and hippies more than a decade ago, I’ve met an abundance of extraordinarily talented people; wonderful and kind individuals with great courage and fierce determination to make the world a better place—and with what can only fairly be described as correspondingly chaotic personal lives.
Why Are So Many Metamodernists So Miserable? And What Can We Do about it? Read More »
