people who think “seeing like a state” is a hammer with which they can strike a blow against modernism don’t understand that slas *is* modernism deploying it rhetorically *further entrenches* modernity, because modernity adapts and appropriates all criticism that’s its thing
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Replying to @ResonantPyre
if social/civ planners read the book, found merit in its critiques, and changed their methods to accommodate them, would it be an end to modernity? even “High Modernity”? no, ‘cause it makes humanist critiques, not traditional authoritarian critiques (invoking papal decrees etc)
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Replying to @averykimball
We could call it meta modernity modernity aware of itself, and adapting to self critique
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Replying to @ResonantPyre
yeah, some have tried i suspect “meta-modernity” just collapses into “modernity”, despite people’s branding efforts
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Replying to @averykimball @ResonantPyre
True, the cat is out of the bag, we'll never again go back to *not* subjugating our environment to Reason Metamodernity seems like modernity but smarter, taking into account everything that we know (oh, the "efficient" agricultural patterns cause landslides, etc)
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Metamodernity is modernity after learning from and incorporating all anti-modern critique
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Reasoning about the failures of reason and knowledge about the limits of knowledge.
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