Dear friends,

In a new episode of the Integration podcast, Robb Smith joins Integration Journal Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Hedlund and Managing Editor Brendan Graham Dempsey to discuss the urgent need for integrative conceptual work in today’s world. Why do the interconnected challenges of the metacrisis demand integrative solutions? How can emancipatory struggles be strengthened through critical metatheory? What do emerging patterns of knowledge integration reveal about a bold new story of wholeness? Together, they outline the vision and scope of the new journal and explore the meaning and applications of an “integrative metatheory 2.0” beyond postmodernism.

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Timestamps

0:00 IAM in the Context of Radical Social Morphogenesis

12:39 A Meta-Systematic Metacrisis in Need of Meta-Systematic Analysis

20:21 The Problems We Face and the Stories We Tell

31:39 Advancing a Worldview for Long-Term Good

38:56 Critical Metatheory and Emancipatory Struggle beyond Postmodernism

49:20 Knowledge Integration and a New Story of Wholeness

1:02:34 Integration: The Journal of Big Picture Theory and Practice

1:08:52 Integrative Metatheory 2.0 in Service of Planetary Flourishing

1:21:00 Competing Worldviews in the 21st Century for AI and Value Alignment

1:29:01 Conclusion