Polymodernity is about combining the best from the past and the present in the best possible ways to create a meaningful future. To make it tangible, it combines four cultural codes:
Indigenous code (hunter-gatherer and agricultural Stone Age)
Traditional code (Bronze and Iron Ages)
Modernity
Post-Modernism
Each of those four cultural codes entail important knowledge about what it means to be human: experiences, realizations, and accumulated wisdom that we need now and in the future.
Polymodernity was previously named metamodernity, but it constantly got confused with metamodernism, so we changed the name. Watch the exploration of metamodernity versus metamodernism here.
Cultural codes with metamodernism
Cultural codes with polymodernity
Polymodernity explained in less than 2 minutes
Podcast episode from back when polymodernity was called metamodrnity
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