
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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Recent Content
Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Pricing Out a Paradigm Shift: A Metamodern-MMT Primer
Published on: 6 May 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract Organization
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
by The Abs•Tract Organization
Manifesting Mass Metanoia
Published on: 2 Mar 22 in The Abs-Tract Organization – Medium
by Brent Cooper
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
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Challenge Accepted: Debating Gregg Henriques
Published on: 14 Oct 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
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
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Laying it Out with Layman #5: Collectively Imagining Change (of paradigm and money)
Published on: 19 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
In the Zone with Zak Stein: Education as Organizing Principle of Civilization
Published on: 18 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
Voices With Vervaeke: Mapping and Meaning (of Abstraction and Metamodernism)
Published on: 16 Jul 20 in The Abs-Tract Organization – YouTube
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
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
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
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
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
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
by The Abs•Tract: Core Philosophy
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
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