Brendan Graham Dempsey talks to Lene Rachel Andersen, author of Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World, about navigating different cultural codes, updating traditions, and sense-making in today's world.

0:00 Introduction

3:20 Metamodern-ism vs. Metamodern-ity

5:34 Seeing All Four Previous Cultural Codes

11:15 Updating through Addition

13:01 Metamodern Oscillation between Postmodern and Pre-postmodern (Indigenous, Classical, Modern)

18:08 Cultural Code-Switching

27:02 Code Antagonism and Limits

23:29 Code Pluralism and Sense-Making

34:44 A Corner of the Iron Age in 2021

39:03 Premodern Beliefs in a Metamodern World?

47:07 Invention and Religion/Inventing Religion

57:53 Transcendence in the Cultural Codes

1:04:11 Making Meaning, Sense, and Identity after Postmodernism

More on Lene's work at:

www.NordicBildung.org

www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com

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