Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo? Neo: No Morpheus: Why not? Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life....

The new book by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, has landed with a big splash, sending “the...

Reflections on the Artful Scaling of the Religion that's Not a Religion A lot of fruitful questions came up for me from my first...

Some Autobiographical Reflections on Discovering Developmental Stage Theory From Egocentrist to Sociocentrist I grew up in an Evangelical...

Regarding the idea of Spirit’s “development,” some may be uncomfortable from the get-go, since many influential traditions posit that...

We live in a world reeling from multiples crises: ecological, political, economic, social. We call this the “meta-crisis.” But there’s...

LOSING OUR (TRADITIONAL) RELIGION The religious world I inhabited as a child and adolescent was, for good and ill, richly enchanted. You...

INSIGHTS OF MODERNITY The realizations and insights of modernity are real and powerful. Reason and evidence are formidable tools for...

After so much deconstruction of traditional religion, we are finally in a place to start putting things back together. “After...

by Alesky Varian A. DEFINITION Exemplary of the metamodern sentiment (as first articulated by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den...

So, what’s up with the use of pseudonyms in metamodern literature? What is this great jest with persona and identity all about? Well, as...

GOD AND THE ‘SPECTER OF IDENTITY’ Of crucial importance in the last scene of the previous post, I think, is Joel’s decision to see Spirit...

GOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...

GOD, the first volume in the Icon, is an epic poem I wrote between 2011 and 2015, and in its themes and formal strategies exemplifies...

TOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...

Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.

EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...

What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai

Using Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath

Postmodernism dominated cultural and intellectual production during the 70s and 80s. In the 1990s, its energy began to dissipate; the...