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Metamodernist // Manifesto
Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
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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;
Jonathan Rowson • Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Stuart Evans added
Metamodernism, then, is not so much a word for a new historical epoch, but rather a new disposition towards the experience of history unfolding.
Jonathan Rowson • Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Stuart Evans added
owing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an integrate
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Keely Adler 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.
Jonathan Rowson • Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Stuart Evans added
Amidst these many “candidates” to transcend modernity and postmodernity, what perhaps distinguishes metamodernism the most regardless of its different schools of thought within it, is its emphasis on an emerging or newly born collective sensibility or “feelings’’ pointing towards a new cultural milieu which reflects the current late stage of global
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Keely Adler added
Metamodernism is thus also more optimistic than modernism as it strives to go beyond its shortcomings, and thus inherently more optimistic than postmodernism, which lacks faith in modernity and its metanarrative of progress.
Alex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
Keely Adler added
In light of this sweeping scope and elastic structure, the test of the value of metamodernism is no less than this: whether it helps us feel at home in a world that might not be falling apart.
Jonathan Rowson • Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Stuart Evans added