Towards Management Metamodernism

Another DFW essay, E. Unibas Pluram, offers us a useful lens for understanding what’s going on here: Lorecraft is — or aspires to be — Management Metamodernism, the organizational analogue of the literary movement his essay helped provoke into existence.

So management science today is about leaders producing a view of “external reality” from the raw material of a kind of “management television” — the output of the literary industrial complex — to create reality distortion fields within which everybody else must function.

The difficulties literary, television, and social media cultures have faced in breaking free of a postmodern mode and arriving at a functional metamodern or post-postmodern mode suggests that lorecrafting is going to struggle just as much in arriving at a metamodern management science.