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Metamodernity
Meaning and Hope in a Complex World
The world is changing. Our old knowledge and general understanding of the world do not provide sufficient answers anymore. As our old understandings and the answers we get from them are insufficient, the ways we are used to react and behave do not work well anymore either. Social norms… read more
Author: Lene Rachel Andersen
Publication date: June 20th 2019
Metamodernitet
Mening og håb i en kompleks verden
Verden forandres, og vores gamle viden og forståelse giver ikke tilstrækkelige svar længere. I takt med at de bliver utilstrækkelige, fungerer vores gamle måder at reagere og agere på i stadig mindre grad. Sociale normer og opførsel, som plejede at gøre et godt indtryk, opfattes pludselig som krænkende, og en god uddannelse, der plejede at føre til et godt job, er forældet, stort set det øjeblik man står med eksamensbeviset i hånden. Vores kulturelle kompas… læs mere
Forfatter: Lene Rachel Andersen
Udgivelsesdato: 20t. juni 2019
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The classical thinkers on philosophy wrote on the brink of modernity. Can we keep the modern freedoms in the world of tomorrow, when surveillance technologies are everywhere and bio-engineering can design our behavior? Do we have the freedom to re-invent freedom?
An introduction to the German concept of Bildung, which is both education in the PISA sense and emotional development, embeddedness in culture, the ability to express oneself through culture, and the moral courage to do it. Folk-Bildung is the Danish invention of how to promote Bildung throughout the population.
Capitalism is a brilliant tool to catapult humanity out of several kinds of bondage; poverty and ignorance being two of them. But with surveillance capitalism, globalization and a planet that is about to collapse under human consumption, what are we to think of the once so wonderful instrument that allowed for so much progress? Without losing the productive elements of capitalism, can we contain and benefit from it in smarter ways?