
The 2nd episode of the 2nd season of the 4Sight Chats Series, with Brent Cooper. Brent is a geopolitical sociologist, founder of The Abs-Tract Organization, and filmmaker. Alex is PhD candidate at NUS Business School (Singapore), and Associate Editor of the journal "World Futures Review".
Chat Outline:
- What is metamodernism?
- The normative aspect of metamodernism
- Differences and similarities between metamodernism and integral theory
- The relation between metamodernism and science
- Brent's film, The AbsTract: Core Philosophy, Act I
Available in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OK4noHkVE
MENTIONED REFERENCES
Brent’s Medium: https://medium.com/@brentcooper
Vermeulen & van den Akker (2010). Notes on Metamodernism: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677
Hanzi’s articles on metamodernism: https://metamoderna.org/
Hanzi (2019). Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two: https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ideology-Metamodern-Politics-Guides/dp/8799973928
Alex’s article on the futures of capitalism: https://www.academia.edu/37518829/Scenario_archetypes_of_the_futures_of_capitalism_The_conflict_between_the_psychological_attachment_to_capitalism_and_the_prospect_of_its_dissolution
Brent’s article about integral theory and metamodernism https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/integral-abstraction-41a7d8597476
Rowson’s article about Metamodernism in the Perspectiva book: https://systems-souls-society.com/metamodernism-and-the-perception-of-context-the-cultural-between-the-political-after-and-the-mystic-beyond/
Alex’s article about the resistance to scientific theory in futures and foresight (with Thomas Chermack): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ffo2.61
Brent’s article in The Side View: https://thesideview.co/journal/mapping-metamodernism-for-collective-intelligence/
Brent’s short film, The AbsTract: Core Philosophy, Act I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBRI53hmrE&t=0s
Trailer of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVDk-u1xqRU
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