But such diagnoses can also be understood as a malady of modernity aging, of the modern institutions, founded a century ago or more, having become unable to effectively tackle the complexities of metamodern (postindustrial, transnational, digitized, etc.) society—a society in which the key self-organizational flows occur on a much higher order of complexity. Thus, we are not only talking about restoring, revitalizing or “saving” democracy, but about fundamentally updating democracy and reimagining its institutions. Hence, we are asking a more radical and dangerous question: How do we reinvent
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