I'm puzzled by that statement, since I see metamodernism's oscillation/simultaneity of thoughts/feelings acting to enable—as you wonderfully put it—"the search for objective truth and the emotional resonance of subjective perceptions"
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We already do this. Naturally. All the time. What is needed is neither oscillation nor simultaneity but a conscientious effort to distinguish between them and to preserve systems which enable us to do this collectively by mutual criticism. My argument:https://areomagazine.com/2017/12/08/the-problem-with-truth-and-reason-in-a-post-truth-society/ …
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I don't think what we need is 'a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons' so much as a plurality of disparate & well-evidenced arguments from which we can get the best & most supported ideas and advance our species.
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YMMV; the manifesto darts from one contradiction to another—that's its form—from art to the absolute to science to poeticism, to strive for something beyond. And most of all, to strive for movement beyond postmodernism's inertia. As an artist, this is why I found it useful to pen
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Right. I'm not sure this is meaningful in the way we need it to be if we want to preserve a liberal, secular democracy and the concept of objective truth in a society comprised of many groups with different narratives.
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But living in a time where once again the idea of creating something meaningful, of attempting some kind of beauty or truth, I find to be incredibly useful – despite the inherent dangers of romanticism
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It depends how you do this. The groups doing this most successfully at the moment range from Islamists to the Tea Party to the Corbynite left to the Jordan Peterson cult. I don't find any of them useful.
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But I'm clearly none of those. I'm an artist by profession. That's how I choose to engage, and hope that I am helping change the world to something better in some small way through my actions.
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As do I. It seems our ways are antithetical.
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How so, though? I truly believe that everyone is an artist (though not by profession, of course). Everyone is driven by some kind desire for movement, surely? And things that facilitate this are generally positive.
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I don't know what that means. Is an artist someone who is driven by some kind of desire for movement? You're really not saying anything and so conversation can't happen.
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Yes, I was perhaps defining an artist here in the broadest terms as someone who imparts movement on the world. I'm sorry if you take issue with that spirit.
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