Tag: we live in a society

I’ve been reading The Listening Society, a book on the political ideology of metamodernism written under the nom de plume Hanzi Freinacht.

I don’t know much about the real authors behind the book (and its sequel, Nordic Ideology, which I plan to read soon) but I find myself drawn to the ideas presented in it for two reasons.

First, I’m generally fascinated by post-postmodern ideas and personally feel the way forward is some amalgamation of incredulity towards meta-narratives (Jean-Francois Lyotard’s definition of postmodernism) and something like David Foster Wallace’s New Sincerity.

And Reason B. I’ve never seen a book describe me so well as these two paragraphs.

BTW, the “triple H” people described here are “Hackers, Hipsters, and Hippies” and have nothing to do (afaik) with WWE’s Hunter Hearst Helmsley, a.k.a The Game.