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Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
- The point of metamodernism is therefore to help us better perceive our historical context by developing theories and practices that allow us to feel into what it means to be in a time between worlds, where meta-crises relating to meaning and perception abound and we struggle to perceive clearly who we are and what we might do;
from Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond by Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added
- One way to grasp the value of the idea of metamodernity is to say it’s about focusing our attention on our subjective and inter-subjective relationship to these times we live in, when we stand, in some quaveringly uncertain sense, after, within, between or beyond modernity.[4]
from Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond by Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added
- When seen in this light, whereby meta is a sincerely ironic ‘trinity’ of between, after and beyond, and metamodernism has four orienting touchstones of interiority, intimacy, historicity and ecology, what is on offer is a lodestar that helps to orient our perception of context.
from Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond by Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added