• Metamodernist // Manifesto

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 24 07:31:23 2021
    Many believe Cold War ==> End of History at the end of last century.
    More recently, the thinking is Cold War ==> Post Cold War ==> New Cold War.

    Political Metamodernism is the new talk.
    --------------------------
    Metamodernist // Manifesto
    1.
    We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.
    2.
    We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child.
    3.
    Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between positions, with diametrically opposed ideas operating like the pulsating polarities of a colossal electric machine, propelling the world into action.
    4.
    We acknowledge the limitations inherent to all movement and experience, and the futility of any attempt to transcend the boundaries set forth therein. The essential incompleteness of a system should necessitate an adherence, not in order to achieve a
    given end or be slaves to its course, but rather perchance to glimpse by proxy some hidden exteriority. Existence is enriched if we set about our task as if those limits might be exceeded, for such action unfolds the world.
    5.
    All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance. Artistic creation is contingent upon the origination or revelation of difference therein. Affect at its zenith is the unmediated experience of difference
    in itself. It must be art’s role to explore the promise of its own paradoxical ambition by coaxing excess towards presence.
    6.
    The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from
    signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now.
    7.
    Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed
    naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
    8.
    We propose a pragmatic romanticism unhindered by ideological anchorage. Thus, metamodernism shall be defined as the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit
    of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons. We must go forth and oscillate!

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    http://www.metamodernism.org/

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 27 04:38:06 2021
    On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 3:31:25 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    Many believe Cold War ==> End of History at the end of last century.
    More recently, the thinking is Cold War ==> Post Cold War ==> New Cold War.

    Political Metamodernism is the new talk.
    --------------------------
    Metamodernist // Manifesto
    1.
    We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.
    2.
    We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child.
    3.
    Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between positions, with diametrically opposed ideas operating like the pulsating polarities of a colossal electric machine, propelling the world into action.
    4.
    We acknowledge the limitations inherent to all movement and experience, and the futility of any attempt to transcend the boundaries set forth therein. The essential incompleteness of a system should necessitate an adherence, not in order to achieve a
    given end or be slaves to its course, but rather perchance to glimpse by proxy some hidden exteriority. Existence is enriched if we set about our task as if those limits might be exceeded, for such action unfolds the world.
    5.
    All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance. Artistic creation is contingent upon the origination or revelation of difference therein. Affect at its zenith is the unmediated experience of
    difference in itself. It must be art’s role to explore the promise of its own paradoxical ambition by coaxing excess towards presence.
    6.
    The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from
    signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now.
    7.
    Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed
    naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
    8.
    We propose a pragmatic romanticism unhindered by ideological anchorage. Thus, metamodernism shall be defined as the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in
    pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons. We must go forth and oscillate!

    ------------------------------
    http://www.metamodernism.org/

    "There’s this talk about something called ‘politi­c­al metamodernism’. It is said to be a new ideology replacing and outcom­pet­ing liberal democracy and capitalism as we know them. Quietly, its pro­pon­ents suggest, it is all but completely
    trashing socialism, liberalism, conservatism and ecologism, each on its own terms, leaving many people’s feelings hurt in the process. Political metamodernism has the capacity to gradually, but profoundly, change the lives of countless millions of
    people for the better, by cultivating a deeper kind of welfare system and economy—propelling us towards a saner, kindlier world. The welfare system part of this is called the listening society. All of this is said to slowly but surely be growing out of
    the cultural and econo­mic dev­elop­ment of the most progres­sive and advanced societies in the world, like the Nordic countries. And to understand and ally oneself with the listening society is both very useful to oneself and a service to mankind
    and all the other suffering animals. And it comes with certain risks, like all potent things do... But is it real?” (The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One)

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 3 07:14:24 2021
    On Saturday, November 27, 2021 at 12:38:08 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 3:31:25 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    Many believe Cold War ==> End of History at the end of last century.
    More recently, the thinking is Cold War ==> Post Cold War ==> New Cold War.

    Political Metamodernism is the new talk.
    --------------------------
    Metamodernist // Manifesto
    1.
    We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.
    2.
    We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child.
    3.
    Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between positions, with diametrically opposed ideas operating like the pulsating polarities of a colossal electric machine, propelling the world into action.
    4.
    We acknowledge the limitations inherent to all movement and experience, and the futility of any attempt to transcend the boundaries set forth therein. The essential incompleteness of a system should necessitate an adherence, not in order to achieve a
    given end or be slaves to its course, but rather perchance to glimpse by proxy some hidden exteriority. Existence is enriched if we set about our task as if those limits might be exceeded, for such action unfolds the world.
    5.
    All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance. Artistic creation is contingent upon the origination or revelation of difference therein. Affect at its zenith is the unmediated experience of
    difference in itself. It must be art’s role to explore the promise of its own paradoxical ambition by coaxing excess towards presence.
    6.
    The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from
    signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now.
    7.
    Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed
    naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
    8.
    We propose a pragmatic romanticism unhindered by ideological anchorage. Thus, metamodernism shall be defined as the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in
    pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons. We must go forth and oscillate!

    ------------------------------
    http://www.metamodernism.org/
    "There’s this talk about something called ‘politi­c­al metamodernism’. It is said to be a new ideology replacing and outcom­pet­ing liberal democracy and capitalism as we know them. Quietly, its pro­pon­ents suggest, it is all but
    completely trashing socialism, liberalism, conservatism and ecologism, each on its own terms, leaving many people’s feelings hurt in the process. Political metamodernism has the capacity to gradually, but profoundly, change the lives of countless
    millions of people for the better, by cultivating a deeper kind of welfare system and economy—propelling us towards a saner, kindlier world. The welfare system part of this is called the listening society. All of this is said to slowly but surely be
    growing out of the cultural and econo­mic dev­elop­ment of the most progres­sive and advanced societies in the world, like the Nordic countries. And to understand and ally oneself with the listening society is both very useful to oneself and a
    service to mankind and all the other suffering animals. And it comes with certain risks, like all potent things do... But is it real?” (The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One)

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/202004/what-is-metamodernism
    "The most basic way to conceptualize metamodernism is to consider it as the mindset or sensibility or cultural code that comes after postmodernism (see here for the Wiki entry). As such, it is helpful to briefly review modernism and its relationship to
    postmodernism, which, in turn, sets the stage for understanding the emerging metamodern movement. Modernism is a mindset and cultural code that is formed during the emergence of modern science and the Enlightenment (thus, it has been around for ~300
    years). It emphasizes reason and rationality, the power of science in deciphering foundational truths about the universe, capitalism, and the idea of human progress. It also emphasizes individuality and universal human rights. Most "modern" industrial
    societies are primarily organized by these values and codes.

    Postmodernism arose mostly in the back half of the 20th century. In direct contrast to modernism, the postmodern viewpoint offers a skeptical critique of modernist knowledge and concludes that the knowledge we generate is always contextual. The
    postmodern argument is that there is an inevitable fusion of truth with social power. It was consolidated by philosophers like Jaques Derrida, Paul Feyerabend, and Michel Foucault. It manifested in movements such as the massive civil rights and feminist
    positions that emerged in the 1960s, as people demanded changes in the existing power structures that were seen to be connected to a Christian, white male hegemony. In 1979, Jean-François Lyotard captured the essence of the postmodern sensibility as
    being the absence of the grand narrative.

    At its broadest contours, the metamodern view can be considered a kind of higher-order synthesis that includes and transcends both the modernist thesis about rationality and science and the postmodern antithetical critique. In addition, metamodernists
    tend to view the current state of our knowledge to be overly chaotic and fragmented and advocate for a more integrated pluralism that allows for positive, constructive work on what some have called a "post-postmodern grand meta-narrative."

    Metamodernism in six dimensions
    1. Metamodernism as a Cultural Phase
    Here metamodernism refers to trends within the culture at large that include the visual arts, theatre, architecture, literature, music, film, and so forth. In this context, it is the movement that comes after and redeems the cynicism and irony of
    postmodernism...
    2. Metamodernism as a Developmental Stage of Society and Its Institutions...
    3. Metamodernism as a Relatively Late and Rare Stage of Personal Development... 4. Metamodernism as a Meta-Meme
    A meme is a cultural idea or icon that replicates and spreads. Some consider metamodernism to be a kind of meta-meme. This refers to a deep code that consists of pattern-of-patterns within the realm of meaning-making and symbols, with its own social,
    economic, and technological dynamics. Consider, for example, the concept of "emerge" as described here. This movement can be thought of as a meta-meme that signals themes that come together in a coherent, non-arbitrary manner, where the different parts
    resonate with one another and mutually reinforce each other, particularly around the emergence of a digitized internet society. This is explored in Hanzi Freinacht's upcoming work, The 6 Hidden Patterns of History, and it has a precedent in the work of
    Jean Gebser.
    5. Metamodernism as a Holistic Philosophical Paradigm...
    6. Metamodernism as a Societal and Political Project
    Metamodernism can also be considered a political project. Emerging primarily in relatively "progressive" countries and segments of "developed" societies, it is driven by ideals of creating open, participatory processes, collective intelligence, inner
    work and "embodiment," co-development, and an experimental view on rituals as well as attempts to "re-construct" everyday life and social reality"

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