Welcome to metamodernity - complexity science, meaning making, and the return of spirituality
About this episode
The episode discusses the emergence of metamodernism as a cultural response to the limitations of postmodernism, focusing on the need for reconstructing shared values and meaning.
Metamodernism is the cultural mode that is emerging after postmodernism, and boy do we need it. Postmodernism was a period of deconstruction. A necessary deconstruction, I hasten to say, one that shook the foundations of many obsolete structures that kept people oppressed like homophobia, patriarchy, colonialism, and opinions masquerading as expertise. But as there was only deconstruction, we find our culture mired in a nihilistic swamp. How can we reconstruct shared values, shared perspectiv...
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