Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds
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No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private interests, where our attention is easily hijacked and vulnerable to manipulation. There is joy and hope in life as always, but our species faces a capricious future. This anthology is an attempt to perceive our contexts and opportunities more clearly with an exploration of the metamodern sensibility: a structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and imaginative outlook that is coalescing into an important body of theory and practice. Leading metamodern writers, including Zachary Stein, Bonnitta Roy, Lene Rachel Andersen, Hanzi Freinacht, Minna Salami and John Vervaeke, reflect upon the conjunction of premodern, modern and postmodern influences on the present to help contend with our plight in the 2020s and beyond. Fourteen chapters traverse a range of disciplines and domains to help the reader move beyond critique into vision and method. The aim is to create and inspire viable and desirable futures in this time between worlds, where one pattern of collective life is dying and another needs our help to be born.
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Contributors
Preface: Metamodernism and the perception of context: the cultural between, the political after and the mystic beyond
Introduction: The end of the beginning of metamodernism
Part 1 Synoptic Context
1 Tasting the Pickle: Ten flavours of meta-crisis and the appetite for a new civilisation by Jonathan Rowson
2 Time, Change and Causality: Notes towards a metamorphosis of mind by Bonnitta Roy
3 Becoming the Planetary by Jeremy D. Johnson
Part 2 Metamodern Conundrums
4 Disarm the Pedagogical Weaponry: Make education not culture war by Zachary Stein
5 Metamodernism, Simplicity and Complexity: Healing developmental models through involutionary descent by Tom Murray
6 Metamodern Sociology: An ironically sincere invitation to future scholars by Daniel P. Görtz
7 Liza's Bucket: Intellectual property and the metamodern impulse by Siva Thambisetty
8 But Do You Have A Vegetable Garden?: Cultural codes and the preconditions for a successful metamodern economy by Lene Rachel Andersen
9 The Conundrum of Cognitive Dissonance: On the uneasy relationship between agency and understanding, and why it matters by Sarah Stein Lubrano
Part 3 New Frontiers
10 Manifesting Mass Metanoia: Doing change in trying times by Brent Cooper
11 Gnosis in the Second Person: Responding to the meaning of crisis in the Socratic quest of authentic dialogue by John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro
12 Identity Erotics: A metamodern alternative to 'Identity Politics' by Minna Salami
13 On Committed Uncertainty: A dialogue concerning mystery, metaphysics and metamodernism by Jonathan Jong and Mark Vernon
14 The Metamodern Spirit: Approaching transformative integration in psyches and societies by Layman Pascal
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