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Metamodern Scholarship
April 22, 2025 · 40 min

In this episode, I interview Dr. Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm where we discuss metamodernism and metamodern scholarship:

 

*The different strands of metamodernism and its history.

*What metamodernism adds to postmodernism.

*Storm's contribution to metamodern scholarship, including the concept of social kinds.

*Developmental theories and metamodernism.

*The Journal of Metamodernism Theory and Praxis. 

*The metamodern university.

 

Resources mentioned:

 

Dr Storm’s works

 

Josephson, J. A. (2019). The invention of religion in Japan. University of Chicago Press.

 

Josephson-Storm, J. A. (2019). The myth of disenchantment: Magic, modernity, and the birth of the human sciences. University of Chicago Press.

Storm, J. Ā. J. (2024). Metamodernism as the Pedagogy of Revolution: Response to Special Review Symposium (Religion & Theology 30, no. 3&4 [2023]): Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, Metamodernism: The Future of Theory (Chicago, IL; London: University of Chicago Press, 2021). Religion and Theology, 31(1-2), 129-136.

 

Other metamodern books

Metamodernism (Radical Cultural Studies) 

by Robin van den Akker (Editor), Alison Gibbons (Editor), Timotheus Vermeulen (Editor)

 

Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics Paperback – October 30, 2023

by Brendan Graham Dempsey (Author)

 

Freinacht, H. (2017). The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics. Metamoderna ApS.

 

 

The Journal of Metamodern Theory and Praxis

https://sts.williams.edu/metamodern/

 Articles

Kleineberg, M. (2024). Piaget as Metamodernist. Metamodern Theory & Praxis, 1(1), 22-60. https://doi.org/10.70613/2024.0003

Andersen, L. R. (2024). Polymodern economics. Metamodern Theory & Praxis, 1(1), 61-84. https://doi.org/10.70613/2024.0004

Díaz, A. D. (2024). University of the future. Metamodern Theory & Praxis, 1(1), 115-123. https://doi.org/10.70613/2024.0011

 

Other:

Freire, P. (2020). Pedagogy of the oppressed. In Toward a sociology of education (pp. 374-386). Routledge.