The subtitle to Jamie Wheal’s Recapture the Rapture is “Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind.” To be sure, this...

A summary of the main formulations of "metamodernism"

“This desire to tell a story and to disconnect from the facts is dangerous and it needs to be called out, so I'm partly doing that at the...

Is There Anything New Under the Sun? I was recently asked, "Could you please clarify for me in a few sentences, how your work on...

Personal Reflections on Re-Integrating Myth and Ritual—But Without the Bullshit Clearly, this is not fine. And by ‘this’ I mean the...

What, if anything, emerged in Austin? There we all were—an eclectic assembly of thinkers, thought leaders, digital luminaries,...

A Metamodern Metanarrative Building upon an earlier post, THE WIND: Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative, I'd like to try to fill in a bit...

Towards a Common Nomenclature “Μηδείςἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μουτὴν στέγην” THE PROBLEM Cultural evolutionaries[1] have a units problem. When...

Recently, a most curious and remarkable manuscript has come into my possession—one which, perhaps, is of more than a little historical...

LESSONS IN SACRED OBSTETRICS By Anti-Kierkegaard A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...

Your Postmodernism Is Showing “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by [a hermeneutics of suspicion]” “Haters gonna hate” Has...

(Recalling his youth as a believer in Heaven, where God gave Meaning and Purpose, Joel paints a picture of the way things were just...

(The book’s protagonist, Joel, an ex-believer and the speaker of the poem, begins his story in a forest. Having run away from a...

A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...

A Metamodern Anthem for the God that's Emerging “Time… was sure, I’m sure, to raise our faction up: the consequence of history which, in...

How the 'End of the World' Came from the End of the Year, Why Satan is a Dragon, and Other Curious Transformations In Genesis 1, Creation...

Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative Winding Up Everything in existence is some form of energy, and energy is neither created nor...

Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo? Neo: No Morpheus: Why not? Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life....

The new book by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, has landed with a big splash, sending “the...

Reflections on the Artful Scaling of the Religion that's Not a Religion A lot of fruitful questions came up for me from my first...