Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm joins Nick Hedlund and Brendan Graham Dempsey for a deep dive into metamodernism. Where does a worldview actually live, in an individual or in a culture, and what do we do with the fact that people are rarely as consistent as the concept assumes? Does a false belief become real the moment it makes something happen? How does a theory of language written for scholars end up shaping the way a whole country argues about facts? The answers keep turning on ontology, and on what “real” is being contrasted with in any given sentence, a question Storm thinks most of us skip. And what does any of this ask of us in the middle of a metacrisis?

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Timestamps

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:27 – Is Metamodernism a Worldview, or a Metatheory?
00:03:32 – Where Does a Worldview Actually Live?
00:11:48 – Could Metamodernism Reach the Culture?
00:32:46 – Does Metamodernism Need a Realism?
00:36:39 – Storm’s Case Against the Word
00:38:19 – Bhaskar’s Demi-Real: False Beliefs With Real Effects
00:42:38 – Post-Truth, or Competing Epistemic Authorities?
00:53:37 – Existence Without Reality: Numbers and the Hole in a Donut
01:04:36 – Metamodernism and the Metacrisis