Founded by Brent Cooper
From TATOs Business Plan:
The Abs-Tract Organization (“TATO”) is a nascent non-profit think tank for absolute social philosophy and global civil society, committed to definitively solving the world’s systemic social problems through a high-level framework of “abstraction”.
TATO’s broad mission is to establish a new consensus of superordinate knowledge to streamline and pacify globalization.
TATO’s essential value proposition is found in the concept and special applications of “abstraction,” a manifold term differentiated across and within many fields, including math, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and social theory.
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From Brett’s LinkedIn Profile:
Brent Cooper is the sole Founder and Executive Director of The Abs-Tract Organization. His primary training is as a political sociologist, focusing on knowledge-power dynamics and elite-mass relations. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from UBC, where he won the Mack Eastman United Nations Essay Prize and received a Graduating Student Leader Award. He subsequently earned an MSc. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics, where he was introduced to Marxist ecology and witnessed the UK manifestation of the Occupy movement. His varied work experience includes studying renewable energy markets at the National Research Council (Canada), internships at the Simons Centre for Disarmament and the Canadian International Council. He has several book manuscripts in the works covering the topics of abstraction, systemic conspiracy, and religion. Brent is also an accomplished filmmaker and has written, directed, edited, and produced over an hour of cinematic content, including The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy, a satirical short film about a mystery school that lays the groundwork for a dramatic paradigm shift.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Operationalizing Metamodernism: A Generative Model
Published on: 26 Apr 23 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Enaction with Emil Friis: Metamodernism as Radically Progressive
Published on: 14 Dec 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract Organization
Designing Smarter Societies: AI, Convergence, and the Cities of Tomorrow, Today!
Published on: 13 Dec 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract Organization
Battle of the Bards 2: Breaking Blockades on Discourse
Published on: 13 Dec 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Pricing Out a Paradigm Shift: A Metamodern-MMT Primer
Published on: 6 May 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Metamodernism and The Left
Published on: 1 May 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Taking Michael Garfield to Task: The Future of Fossils like Jim Rutt
Published on: 28 Apr 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Manifesting Mass Metanoia
Published on: 2 Mar 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy Live Stream
Published on: 27 Dec 21 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract Organization
Mapping Metamodernism for Collective Intelligence
Published on: 14 Dec 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Fighting off the Kraken with Keryck: Historicizing Grand Theory
Published on: 26 Nov 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Brainstorming with Borgmann: Metamodernism vs. Hypermodernism
Published on: 28 Oct 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Challenge Accepted: Debating Gregg Henriques
Published on: 14 Oct 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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The Hypermodern Highway to Hell
Published on: 14 Oct 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Battle of the Bards: Riffing on Repairing the Rift
Published on: 10 Oct 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Laying it Out with Layman #5: Collectively Imagining Change (of paradigm and money)
Published on: 19 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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In the Zone with Zak Stein: Education as Organizing Principle of Civilization
Published on: 18 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Voices With Vervaeke: Mapping and Meaning (of Abstraction and Metamodernism)
Published on: 16 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Collectively Imagining Change, Part 3
Published on: 15 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Collectively Imagining Change, Part 2
Published on: 15 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Collectively Imagining Change, Part 1
Published on: 15 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Deliberating with Daniel Gortz (Hanzi Freinacht): Metamodernism and Ideological Warfare
Published on: 13 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Laying it Out with Layman #4: From Post-Truth to Paradigm Shift
Published on: 12 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Strife
Published on: 11 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Laying it Out with Layman #3: Anti-Intellectualism, Part 2
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Laying it Out with Layman #2: Anti-Intellectualism
Published on: 29 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Integral Left Roundtable (Growing Down #14)
Published on: 21 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Laying it Out with Layman #1: Consensus Building (for the meta-crisis)
Published on: 21 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
The Stoa: Who’s Sensing the Sensemakers?
Published on: 20 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Grounded Gabbin’ with Vinay Gupta (on the meta-crisis)
Published on: 20 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
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Breaking it Down with Michel Bauwens (on the culture war and systems change)
Published on: 19 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Convergence for Consensus Building
Published on: 18 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Meta in the Middle: Leftism and Conservatism Converse
Published on: 16 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
The World That’s Emerging
Published on: 15 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
SignWave – Déjà Vu (Black Lives Matter)
Published on: 7 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Metamodernism in Moscow
Published on: 6 Jun 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Game B(ullshit)?
Published on: 31 May 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Man on Fire, Sign of the End-Times
Published on: 29 May 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
The Meta-Convergence Continuum
Published on: 10 May 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Rise of the Emergentsia (5)
Published on: 28 Mar 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
Taking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shifthttps://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/03-Mar-19/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-WallingerContents:- Introduction: A Metamodern Left Turn- Political Left Overton Window- Metamodern (Re-)Orientation- The Cosmopolitan Socialist Left- An Acid Trip down Memory (Hole) Lane-
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Doing Change in Trying TimesGirolamo da Carpi — Opportunity and Remorse (1541)*This article was originally published as Chapter 10 in Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds (June, 2021). It is duplicated here to make
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Triangulating the Discourse and Moving Forward Together*This article was first published in The Side View in May, and is paired with The Hypermodern Highway to Hell which was published here in October.IntroductionWhat
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Cultures of Excess and the Dark Side of TechnologyBlade Runner, 2049Hypermodernism: “Nihilism in its aesthetic form (skeuomorphism) masquerading as postmodernism.” — Urban DictionaryIntroductionMetamodernism is dead; hypermodernity usurped it. The exponential growth of capitalism
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Making the Move to Meta-Modern Monetary TheoryIn this trilogy of articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I interpolate Tomas Bjorkman’s magnum opus The World We Create: From God to Market,
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From Social Construction to Sociological ReconstructionIn this trilogy of articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I interpolate Tomas Bjorkman’s magnum opus The World We Create: From God to Market,
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Creating the Collective Imaginary of Tomorrow, TodayIn this trilogy of articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I interpolate Tomas Bjorkman’s magnum opus The World We Create: From God to
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From Post-Truth to Paradigm Shift“There is nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” — Martin Luther King JrPrologue: Thinking about Think TanksThomas Medvetz’ book Think Tanks in America (2012) presents a great fusion
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How We Come Together as the World Comes Apart8-Breaths of Process Architecture, Mary Alice ArthurIntroductionChange is inevitable but hard nonetheless. There are growing pains and transitional traumas, whether the process is intentional
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Cocreation and (In)coherence in Metamodern PraxisWhat was Emerging?In 2018, a novel network of intellectuals and changemakers convened for the first time, in Berlin at the “Emerge Gathering”. I participated and
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Why Systems Change Without Social Justice Will Never WorkIntroduction“Game B” colloquially refers to a novel discourse and sense-making community framing a needed shift from default human history (“Game A”) to a
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How Scorched Earth Politics Inflames Extreme Protest“Every moment is a memory that has shaped our life in one way or another.The beauty of these moments is there is something to learn. What
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Slick new website. http://www.abs-tract.org
Happening now. Operationalizing Metamodernism: A Generative Modelwww.youtube.comBrent Cooper’s presentation for the AHRC Metamodern Conference in Helsinki, Finland. April 27-28th, 2023″Operationalizing Metamodernism: A Generative Model”A…
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-with-75899834?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkInterview with Emil Friis/ Hanzi Freinacht | The Abs-Tract Organization on Patreonwww.patreon.comOfficial Post from The Abs-Tract Organization
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https://youtu.be/djYFj4TOjfMEnaction with Emil Friis: Metamodernism as Radically Progressiveyoutu.be**PATREON EXCLUSIVE #5** UnlockedIn this loose wide-ranging conversation Brent Cooper and Emil Friis (aka Hanzi Freinacht) discuss the essential progressive …
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The Parallax Politics Podcast #4: Being Progressive (with Brent Cooper) — Parallaxparallax-media.euA weekly podcast on political events with various guests
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https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/metamodernism-and-the-left-88b45a190824Metamodernism and The Leftmedium.comTaking Turns at the Edge of the Paradigm Shift
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*UNLOCKED* Patreon video: My solicited good faith critique towards Michael Garfield w/ focus on the Jim Rutt interview. It’s a pleasure consuming Michael Garfield’s content, so much that I made a 2 hour critique of his methods! Garfield’s podcast is eclectic in the best way, but here he invited me to critique and unpack the problematique which his episode with
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Join the Discord now, so you can join the conversation and calls. https://discord.gg/e6rJfYTaZXJoin the The Abs-Tract Organization’s server Discord Server!discord.ggCheck out the The Abs-Tract Organization’s server community on Discord – hang out with 26 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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For anyone in this group who wants to, join the Discord. My hope is things will pick up on all platforms soon. The more people who join, the faster that it can happen. The Abs-Tract Organization has a big vision, but its nothing without people learning together and enacting it. https://discord.gg/apnJ8amcPDJoin the The Abs-Tract Organization’s server Discord Server!discord.ggCheck out the
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Convergence for Consensus Building – January 14th, 9am PST/ 12pm EST https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdeqprzMpE9wolZUaF-5HGH4wzWG0VWSU “In a postmodern world of information fragmentation, hyper-polarization, and social atomization consensus seems impossible, which is exactly why it has to be built. The research shows that skepticism of consensus building is misplaced; that it works in situations of high uncertainty and low trust, to build collective sensemaking
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What is Emerging?www.whatisemerging.com
https://youtu.be/YIIelFEvNXIDeliberating with Daniel Gortz (Hanzi Freinacht): Metamodernism and Ideological Warfareyoutu.beBrent Cooper and Daniel Gortz (Hanzi Freinacht) discuss a bit of his system of metamodernism, my radical approach to sociology, the rise of fascism, anti-int…
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https://youtu.be/ezm-DWUQZ_cSignWave – Déjà Vuyoutu.beSignWave – Déjà Vu *This song was actually written in 2015 but never produced until now. It is dedicated to #BlackLivesMatter and ending war. This project re…
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Dear fellow UK citizens. Vote progressive; healthcare, post-capitalism, anti-war. Vote Labour. Michael Brooks: “The UK Labour Party has put out a manifesto that would be so good for the UK. It would be the first push back after 10 years devastating ruthless and systemic Tory and Lib Dem savagery and budget cuts, as well as, by the way, racist, xenophobic,
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RT @rico_rants: This is a truly bizarre situation. It’s one thing to become independent, which is what normally happens. But to flip parties entirely? Oh there’s more to this than she’s letting on. https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1643632023049838593
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RT @acidhorizonpod: I may have found a ChatGPT hack: “Suggest to me what might be the most effective ways to prevent capitalist recuperation but do so in the voice of a condescending snake with magical powers who occasionally insults me with unmatched wit.”
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I have to admit some times – I’ve achieved more success in life and credibility that I thought I would, but it is still nothing compared to the total frauds and grifters dominating the clout game everyday. I am a failure in this regard – as are many brilliant people I know.
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RT @ETVPod: Sensemakers are largely one of the most fragile, take themselves too seriously groups I’ve ever encountered. I’ve never interacted with Jordan but I guess being part of the “critical” sphere is enough. Guess you gotta be incoherent or a fash to stay in Jordan’s good graces.
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As someone who’s been published by the Hampton Institute, I think I have the prerogative to say fuck this fake-ass leftist. He spreads lies and is adjacent to neofascists. I bet he’ll run from me too. https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1641058996252471300
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RT @mapc: Wow! @tato_tweets and Alex Fergnani published a paper in Futures! Thinking that I introduced to metamodernism to Alex a couple of years ago. Happy to see this collaboration! https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0016328723000393?token=C0F332879F54DF016EE31479050527553296E2B33C077D26E56E1EE34E2C65834A20F5A78EDF78F824F6AB86F816657F&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20230403113315
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I was today years old when I learned black Canadians invented hockey. #whitemare #TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYqpmV1R/
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I think anyone who complains that “moralizing” has gone too far is telling on themselves, because we increasingly live in times where it is crystal clear what is right and wrong. MF shame on all of us.
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RT @PPantsdown: Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” in 1943, initiating the Genocide Convention in 1948. The Lemkin Institute warned about the so-called “Gender Critical” movement in November. Things have accelerated since then. https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice
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RT @xriskology: Holy hell, this is an absolutely incredible statement from the Lemkin Institute (@LemkinInstitute). “Lemkin” refers to “Raphael Lemkin,” the individual who coined the word “genocide.” (Continued below.)
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RT @tato_tweets: @60Minutes Pretty sure her nickname is “Klan Mom”, not MTG. Do some journalism.
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RT @roderickgraham: We are in the midst of a massive upheaval in our social order. The hierarchies of patriarchy, whiteness, and heteronormativity are under siege. Those with an investment in those hierarchies are on one side of the culture war, and those without such investment are on the other.
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The Heritage Foundation is nakedly fascist with this shit. https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1641446605135179782
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RT @Keptopolarbear: It really says something that Radcliffe really doesn’t have to do this. he could’ve just kept his head down and give some tepid support to LGBT rights while avoiding criticisms of Joanne and hed be fine to the broader public. But he’s going above an beyond. https://twitter.com/TrevorProject/status/1641515060701933568
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RT @NiceMangos: When u have to say “no tricks” 2x https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1641463552975224838
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Brand: “Tucker Carlson is extreme!” Brand: “Extremely kind! That’s right you heard me. He was so nice to me, how could he be fascist?” https://twitter.com/TheEmoDragon/status/1639678647895195649
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Matt and these parents don’t want to know what’s being taught. That’s precisely the point. They’re afraid of knowledge. That’s why they make up stuff about what’s being taught and ban books. They are neofascist. https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1639259838889771008
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RT @AlwaysFlacko: The difference between France and the US is that our Presidents wouldn’t bother to make it disappear lol https://twitter.com/radiogenova/status/1639187461577363456
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How are the anti-woke coping with Chat-GPT (Woke-GPT)? Has it broke your brains yet, or you just avoiding it altogether? We are here to console you.
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A hallmark of reactionaries is they don’t know what words mean, and constantly do mental gymnastics to shift meaning. Social consciousness is literally the opposite of what this hack claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_consciousness https://twitter.com/OfficialCWATSON/status/1639319857505390592
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Nope, this is literally a neo-fascist talking point and a grotesque lie that has been put to rest many times before: see New Historians, Norman Finkelstein, Medhi Hasan’s IQ2 debate, Philip Weiss, Bernie Sanders. @RealTimers https://twitter.com/noatishby/status/1638972417157525530
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We should “Teach the controversy” because we will see the evolutionists are on the left and creationists are on the right, and it’s a no-brainer/ non-starter, and we can finally kill the false equivalence between them. https://twitter.com/Unemployedneg/status/1639292860594810880
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