Why is this general understanding “metamodern”? Is anything Hanzi says “metamodern” by definition? No. These theories are metamodern because they synthesize the ideas of modern progress through successive stages with a postmodern, critical sensitivity towards modern society. They offer a direction and a roadmap without relying upon a naive, materialist, linear and mechanical faith in science, rationality and humanity. There’s no statue of Lenin pointing us towards a glittering future. Rather, the metamodern view of progress takes as its point of departure the very failures, limitations and
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