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Metamoderna is an independent publishing company registered in Denmark.
We publish books, papers, and articles by progressive metamodern thinkers.
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From Metamoderna.org:
As a writer, Hanzi combines in-depth knowledge of several sciences and disciplines and offers maps of our time and the human condition with his characteristically accessible, poetic and humorous writing style – challenging the reader’s perspective of herself and the world.
Hanzi Freinacht epitomizes much of the metamodern philosophy and can be considered a personification of this strand of thought. He has produced a wide array of original, relevant and useful ideas for people in all walks of life. These ideas help you gain an upper hand in the new political, economic and cultural landscape of digital, postindustrial society.
Daniel Görtz, PhD is a political philosopher, sociologist and author. He is a leader of “the Nordic school” of metamodernism.
Daniel lives in Sweden and works for Metamoderna, the publisher of metamodern books, and for Glimworks, an IT-company where he is In-House Philosopher.
Along with Emil Ejner Friis, Daniel has a major influence on the works written by Hanzi Freinacht.
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Recent Content
Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
NEW EBOOK: 12 Commandments
Published on: 8 Jan 23 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
A Four-Dimensional Fractal Approach to Ethics
Published on: 31 Aug 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The Economy of Happiness
Published on: 21 Aug 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
What Does the Next Level of Welfare Look like?
Published on: 14 Aug 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Strongmen Destroyed, Part 3: The Politik Revolution
Published on: 23 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Denys Bakirov
Strongmen Destroyed, part 2: The Names of Evil
Published on: 23 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Denys Bakirov
Strongmen Destroyed, Part 1: The Silovik Revolution
Published on: 23 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Denys Bakirov
10 Ways to Thoroughly “Solarpunk” Society
Published on: 17 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
We Must Reclaim Solarpunk from Authoritarian Regimes
Published on: 10 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Why The Alternative in Denmark Failed
Published on: 3 Jul 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Political Polarization Is Good?!
Published on: 26 Jun 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
3 BS Traps when Working with Hipsters, Hippies and Hackers
Published on: 19 Jun 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The Four Pillars of Metamodern Animal Rights aka. How to Prevent 133 Holocausts
Published on: 13 Jun 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Reconstructing Ecologism
Published on: 5 Jun 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Reconstructing the Indigenous: The Wrong Way and the Right Way
Published on: 31 May 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
3 Design Principles for Protopian Governance
Published on: 22 May 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Our Justice System Needs an Update—an Update that Goes Against the Law
Published on: 15 May 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
How Do We Transform Nationalism into a Force for Good?
Published on: 10 May 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
20 Ways to Understand Nationalism (in Ukraine and the World)
Published on: 9 May 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
NFTs Are Flowers of Evil, Yes, But They Can Save The World
Published on: 18 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
When Irony Saves the Faithful
Published on: 10 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Conclusion: Connecting the Eight Pathways
Published on: 6 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Eight: Adjusting to an Education on the Move
Published on: 5 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Seven: Adapting to the Rise of the Global South
Published on: 4 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Six: Honing the Meta-Skills
Published on: 1 Apr 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Five: Shift the Human-to-System Relations
Published on: 31 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Four: Humanizing Pedagogical Relationships
Published on: 29 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education Three: Harnessing Technological Potential
Published on: 28 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Protopian Education One: Cultivating Ecological Relatedness
Published on: 26 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Education for Protopia: Why Play Is Vital to our Survival
Published on: 25 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
[Digital] Madness and [Pornographic] Civilization
Published on: 21 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Advanced Course on Metamodernism Starting April 10
Published on: 16 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
Is Protopia a Classless Society?
Published on: 14 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
10 Action Points on Russia-Ukraine
Published on: 5 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
10 Key Insights Into Russia-Ukraine
Published on: 2 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The Failure of Multiculturalism and Its Resolution: Transculturalism
Published on: 1 Mar 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Acceptance, not Tolerance, Is the Elixir of a Good Society
Published on: 20 Feb 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Is Metamodernism the Last Stage of Development? Chaos Theory Might Hold the Answer
Published on: 19 Feb 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia and Protopia?
Published on: 6 Feb 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Introduction Course on Metamodernism Starting March 6
Published on: 4 Jan 22 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
Wie ein Drogen- und Sexkult aus Lülsfeld ein Ökodorf infiltrierte
Published on: 22 Oct 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
How a Psychedelic Sex Cult Infiltrated a German Ecovillage
Published on: 8 Oct 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
Advanced Course on Metamodernism Starting January 5th
Published on: 19 Sep 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
New Webinar on Metamodernism Available, Starting October 11
Published on: 26 Aug 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
Wieso ich, Emil Ejner Friis, meine Zusage zum Podiumsgespräch am ZEGG Sommer-Camp 30. Juli 2021 zurückziehe.
Published on: 30 Jul 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
The reasons why I, Emil Ejner Friis, am withdrawing from the panel discussion at the ZEGG Summer Camp July 30 2021
Published on: 29 Jul 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Emil Ejner Friis
Obedience as Laughter: From the Great Dictator to the Great Spectator
Published on: 8 Jun 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The Totalitarian Potential of New Age Spirituality
Published on: 6 Jun 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The (Partial) Glory of Fascism: What We Can Learn from the Far-right
Published on: 31 May 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
The Partial Truths of Communism We Ought to Include in the Politics of the Future
Published on: 28 May 21 in Metamoderna – Blog
by Hanzi Freinacht
Hanzi Freinacht releases the hitherto boldest and most comprehensive challenge to Jordan Peterson’s self-help psychology: a self-help for progressive and complex minds. Out Jan 1st 2023. 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary
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How the fractal nature of the integral four-quadrant model can help (dis)solve the paradoxes within ethics. Many years ago, shortly after having discovered Ken Wilber’s very useful four-quadrant model, it occurred to
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It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s how the economy makes us feel: it’s about time, attention, and human drives. [Note: This text is originally in Swedish. It has been AI
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How an expansion of the depth and reach of our welfare services can save the welfare state [Note: This text is originally in Swedish. It has been AI translated and
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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If you’re a visionary political thinker and agent, your eye may have been caught by one of the following theorists/activists of the future of democracy over the last decade or
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It’s been a while since I started out in the “saving the world business” and began hanging out with all those pesky hipsters, hippies and hackers—and in doing so, became
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Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what
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→ If we seek to apply a “metamodern” perspective, and we seek to stimulate a higher probability of Protopia in the world, what kind of green or ecological political thinking
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A letter to my fellow pragmatic dreamers. There is a strong sentiment, almost a movement, across the West and among progressives around the world—even some traditionalists: to reconnect to the ever-present tribal origin;
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Although I have formerly developed an attempt at a comprehensive and general theory of governance—one that would be usable to diagnose the failures of human coordination across all social units
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I would like to briefly sketch a system of law that could be termed metamodern in contrast to our current, modern one, or protopian—i.e. utopian in the sense “visionary” but not a static,
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In my previous article on nationalism, 20 Ways to Understand Nationalism (in Ukraine and the World), I argued that the nation remains perhaps the strongest known social force to ever explode
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In light of the war in Ukraine, issues of nationalism have resurfaced with full force: Is nationalism the same as patriotism? Is it good or bad; a force for self-sacrifice
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Since 2021, the phenomenon of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has shocked the world. Here I track the sociological underpinnings of this strange phenomenon—how it emerges from postmodern art—and show how its
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“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” —Arthur C. Clarke My recent articles have centered around the concept of “Protopia”—the more flexible, dynamic, and abstract version
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Summary So Far By now—if you have read the previous articles that outline the eight pathways to a new planetary paradigm of education—a vision of the future of global education
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“A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future”. —Amela Koluder According to pre-Ukrainian war figures from UNHCR, there are currently around 7.4 million school-age refugees, of which
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“The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries”.
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“Happiness is quite difficult to grasp and is therefore difficult to make the goal and meaning of politics. It is much easier to relate, for example, to the hard currency in which we measure our material resources. There is no one who can point to happiness and say exactly what it is. Yet our need to understand and politically relate
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“If we humans fail to form a good community with each other—how can we expect to guarantee each other’s security and survival in a dignified way? If self-esteem and recognition are too unequally distributed among us—how would we want to enter into communities with one another? And if we lack opportunities for meaningful and creative lives—how can we have enough
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“Think of all the endless attempts to read Putin’s mind. His intentions, his calculations, his emotions, his spirituality, you name it. He feeds on our attempts to ‘understand’ him because our inability to do so only proves his sovereignty. For him, to be unpredictable is the point, the end in itself. And if we actually ‘understand’ Putin, it means that
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“We shouldn’t let Putin define Russia’s security interests because the only interest of his regime is to stop democracy. “What threatened Putin was not NATO expansion, but the democracy expansion”. We have to understand that long before the talk of ‘national interests’ and ‘spheres of influence’ we’ve already walked the walk of appeasing the people who can’t let go of
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A hot and tired Emil Ejner Friis of Metamoderna was interviewed by Artem Zen on his podcast show Elevating Consciousness. The conversation didn’t go as planned, but Emil and Artem seem to have had a blast in each others company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYchmTMl-8Emil Ejner Friis – Metamodern Matters | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #14www.youtube.comEmil Ejner Friis is a theory artist, wordsmith, and author.
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“After a merger with the criminal underworld, siloviki faced two problems. The old problem was that their Communist Empire couldn’t match the power of the capitalist NATO. The new problem was that they couldn’t own property. But now they saw a way to kill two birds with one stone. The solution was to conduct such a transition of the USSR
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This is Denys Bakirov, 27. He is a lecturer at the University of Kharkiv in Ukraine who currently works as a researcher at Metamoderna. 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. There he was interrogated
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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 role of humanity in the
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“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 likely begin to look towards
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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 is a fan of Hanzi’s
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“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 articles) or
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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 thing or two if you’re
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Psychelics associated with increased non-human animal solidarity.Classic Psychedelics and Human–Animal Relationswww.mdpi.comPrevious 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 =….
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Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… – “Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what might future civilizations be equally appalled by in our age?” … they almost inevitably come up with some version of: “Well, it’s probably something about how we treat non-human
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Can ecology be used for degrowth? “Now, appealing as this sounds, it should be pointed out that ecology—as a science—is a considerably harsher one than economics. The word sounds nicer, but a quick comparison of textbooks of the subjects reveal that while, yes, economics focuses significantly on competition, ecology does so to a yet greater extent, and also callously studies
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“In their first-ever conversation on the topic together, Daniel Görtz and Nora Bateson join me to talk about stage theory. Since Nora’s social media post declaring developmental stage theories “BS” and “colonial as hell,” the value and legitimacy of stage models has been a fervent topic of debate within the liminal web. In this conversation, Daniel and Nora are given
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We’re delighted to announce that this wonderful woman, Aurora Quinn-Elmore, just finished the production of the audio version of Nordic Ideology. It will, if everything goes according to plan, be available on audible in a week. Aurora has also produced the audio version of The Listening Society which is voiced by no other than Richard Pshock. If you haven’t already
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“The argument I wish to make in the following is not that civil wars and violent crime lead to higher political order. But, if violence in society is successfully contained, its energies channeled into discourse, it is the very differences of people’s interests, ideologies, and perspectives that push new forms of political reality into being. So, what we have increasingly
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“Consider the following critiques of our growing tendency to long for the indigenous: – There is always a risk of “appropriating” the indigenous cultures, meaning that the unique identities and expressions of these become part of our larger, commercialized systems, which in turn can harm the self-distinction and dignity of minorities. – If tribal cultures are fetishized, large swathes of
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– Greater collective intelligence will tend towards fewer people more deeply involved in more multi-perspectival and disinterested (because we select also neutral representatives) processes of deliberation in councils, with a greater emphasis on the quality of the communicative process. The development of new systems of governance are evaluated on the basis of collective intelligence, not “democracy” in and of itself.
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“The somewhat gruesome public spectacle of the ongoing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial is only a case in point—whatever it is we’re watching, it is hardly a rationally organized process of finding the best solutions for healing of relationships, the restoration of personal dignity, and guidance towards desirable future behaviors. If we take these goals (relational healing, protected personal
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“The Metamodernist vision, its “Protopia”, is not one of a cosmopolitan “world state” or the like—not a monoculture, not a monolith. A “world state” would be as unsustainable as the colonial empires of yore. Instead, we need to go from the current “anarchy between states” as described by realist scholars of international relations to a “panarchy”—an ordered network within which
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An understanding of who Hanzi is provides a taste of metamodernism itself. When complete, his proposed 6-volume magnum opus on metamodernism will be the first/only – and so, de facto definitive – published magnum opus on metamodernism. As described here, it will include politics (done), history, economics, ethics and law.