Notes on the Development of Spirit
Regarding the idea of Spirit’s “development,” some may be uncomfortable from the get-go, since many influential traditions posit that...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- May 22, 2021
- 7 min
Metamodern Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis
We live in a world reeling from multiples crises: ecological, political, economic, social. We call this the “meta-crisis.” But there’s...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- May 22, 2021
- 8 min
Deconstructing Religion
LOSING OUR (TRADITIONAL) RELIGION The religious world I inhabited as a child and adolescent was, for good and ill, richly enchanted. You...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- May 22, 2021
- 8 min
Integrating Modernity and Postmodernity
INSIGHTS OF MODERNITY The realizations and insights of modernity are real and powerful. Reason and evidence are formidable tools for...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- May 22, 2021
- 7 min
Reconstructing Religion
After so much deconstruction of traditional religion, we are finally in a place to start putting things back together. “After...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
Metamodern Mythopoetics: Manifesto
by Alesky Varian A. DEFINITION Exemplary of the metamodern sentiment (as first articulated by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Apr 19, 2021
- 7 min
On Metamodern Pseudonymity
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 7, 2020
- 8 min
After Postmodernism: 10. My Work and the 'Specter of Identity'
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 7, 2020
- 11 min
After Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated Belief
GOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 7, 2020
- 8 min
After Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of Dimensionality
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 7 min
After Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist Period
TOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 8 min
After Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism
Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 8 min
After Postmodernism: 5. Performatism
EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 9 min
After Postmodernism: 4. Remodernism
What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 6 min
After Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of Identity
Using Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 11 min
After Postmodernism: 2. The End of an Era
Postmodernism dominated cultural and intellectual production during the 70s and 80s. In the 1990s, its energy began to dissipate; the...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 11 min
After Postmodernism: 1. What (Really) Was Postmodernism?
We find ourselves in strange times. World historical forces are currently at work which (it seems safe to say) no one saw coming, and...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Jul 31, 2020
- 6 min
Political Metamodernism
A look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Sep 19, 2019
- 3 min
Entry 7: Close
Dear Cellist, You are leaving now. And so am I. But neither to our anticipated destinations, it would seem. And that is fitting, I...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Entry 6: Interlude - cathedralmusic
Ah, Cellist, cellist, celestial > caelestis > caelum--heavenly Cellist; heavensong singer, what are these sweet tunes? This music?...
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