Discussing post-postmodernism and cultural theorist Brendan Graham Dempsey's latest book, Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics. The key idea is recursive transcendence through iterative self-reflection.
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Post-Postmodernism
0:35 What is metamodernism?
3:15 Modern (Thesis) | Postmodern (Antithesis) | Metamodern (Synthesis)
5:35 Setting up the book & podcast
8:30 What's the thesis of the book?
13:35 "Recursive transcendence through iterative self-reflection."
14:00 How did cultural theorists come to agree on "Metamodern"?
21:30 Best alternate post-postmodern descriptor? "Reconstruction"
23:50 Carlos's 2nd place popomo winner
Metamodern Critiques
25:30 W.E.I.R.D. (Western Educated Industrial Rich Democratic)
31:50 Emergence...
35:55 Barbie movie
38:25 W.E.I.R.D. lean of Metamodernism? Complexity...
50:10 Any integration of Eastern thought in Metamodernism?
58:15 Oscillation or pendulum analogy... Overrated!
1:01:20 Brendan prefers "toggling"
1:04:15 Bo Burnham's INSIDE
1:10:50 How do you know when to stop self-reflecting?
Brendan's New Book
1:18:15 Why write this book?
1:23:45 What's the most contested topic within Metamodernism?
1:27:55 What is Hanzi Freinacht's Headless God?
1:34:35 Skyrim intro/going kicking & screaming to the guillotine
1:36:00 Reinterpreting crucifixion as the Headless God
1:38:35 Stepping out of a painting into art gallery, then stepping out of the TV into living room...
1:46:15 How do you know when to stop recursively self-reflecting?
1:50:50 Don't you lose resolution of the original painting?
1:59:40 Hanzi Freinacht is not a real person... sincere irony
2:02:50 Metamodern media... highwire act
2:08:20 Wes Anderson films
2:09:30 Brendan thinks we're moving more into cynicism...
2:11:05 Ken Wilber's Integral Theory
2:21:15 Sky Meadow Institute announcement
2:24:30 Parting words
🚩My favorite book passages 🚩
A metamodern theology can positively adopt this meta-view of the continual construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of the divine-indeed, even mythopoeically rendering it in new symbolic terms as part of meta-religious construction. Freinacht himself takes a stab in this direction, dubbing the metamodern God-concept "The Headless God":
"If God is always on His way to the guillotine, if He's always beheaded and overturned by a new revolution of the critical mind, of new perspectives and life experiences, what you get is The Headless God. An open-ended God. A God of exploration. Now that is the God that's left even after the crudest murders of the sacred, and that's a God truly worth worshipping. If being whacked by the critical mind, if being crucified and denied, if being killed and mocked, still doesn't kill you and you are still reborn, still wearing the crown of thorns, well then at least my hat's off and I'm on my knees before you, ready to give you everything. With this view of the divine, "the sacred" is revealed through a relentless series of iconoclasms."
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"But the process never ends; the palace is always under construction. Mapping the world is a continual bootstrapping process, forever building off of previous levels. This is the nature of cultural evolution itself, which is continuously generating new paradigm shifts in its punctuated equilibrium towards a receding telos."
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