Brendan Graham Dempsey is Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Metatheory, where he studies the evolution and development of worldviews and human meaning-making systems. ​He holds an advanced degree from Yale University, where he studied religion and culture. 

 

His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. His books include Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics and the multi-volume Evolution of Meaning series.

 

He is Managing Editor of Integration: The Journal of Big Picture Theory and Practice and a founding editor of Metamodern Theory & Praxis, to which he brings over 7 years of professional journal production experience. 

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