Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, poet, farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most. 

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He holds a BA in religious studies from the University of Vermont and a master's in religion and art from Yale University. His books include Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics and The Evolution of Meaning series. He is also co-editor of the academic journal Metamodern Theory & Praxis.

 

His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work.

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