Continuing this post, even the prefix meta in the context of metamodernism (MM) means above and beyond, like into the wild
blue yonder. It's a subject that analyzes another subject from a higher,
more abstract level, transcending it. It's another version of the
transcend and include metaphor,
subsuming its lower subject within its matrix, lording over it from
above. It's very consistent with the notions above about a savior from
on high.
Then there's the suffix ism meaning a
doctrine, theory or system. MM is a system that is beyond and above the
modern system, including but transcending it. So I'm wondering if we are
really to go to the metaphorical next level, so to speak, if we really
need to step outside of these frames of doctrines that save us from
above and beyond like the deus ex machina, itself a worldview holdover
from both the religious and modern worldviews? Even the MM (and
integral) buzzwords hierarchy and complexity mean rule from an
abstract above and beyond.
It's one reason I prefer
the prefix syn, meaning with or together, and its corollary syntegral, more akin with the collaborative commons. It shows how
together we commoners enact a way of thinking, being and doing without
need of metaisms. It too is a metanarrative in the sense of an overall,
cohering story, but one that synscends, blends, braids its various
elements, creating a different sort of part/whole inter(en)action, a
new and hybrid flavor, one that comes from our shared commons instead of
a savior elite above and beyond us. The era of the deus ex machina is
over. It's time for new expressions compatible with the emerging story.
The era of hier(an)archical synplexity has arrived. And it lives in the
relational tensegrity between its twin stars Syn City and Multipli City.
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