HELLAMETAMODERNISM

Amend the US Constitution with a Right to Privacy

Note: This is a bit of a departure for this site, but I felt the need to write something in response to recent events. The connection to HELLAMETAMODERNISM here is indirection: rather than a frontal conversation on the issues at hand, whether that is abortion, trans rights, or whatever else,

Panel on Thurs. April 7th, 4PM PDT...

This is a super-quick update mostly to make sure folks know I have not abandoned the site, and to let you know that I, along with fellow HELLAMETAMODERNIST Naomi Most, will be on an online panel tomorrow (or today depending on your time zone and when you read this) at

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HELLAMETAphanipoiesis

Part One of a three-part series on the underlying theories of HELLAMETAMODERNISM HELLAMETAMODERNISM (HMM) is a view of metamodernism focusing on human experience as an artistic medium, and on the power of shared experience for bringing about change. It has three main theoretical underpinnings: Metamodernism in various forms including but

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HELLAMETAMutations

This is a quick update as I work on the larger series of HELLAMETAMODERNISM articles. I have made the "preview" article public as I found myself needing to reference it a lot as I work on the next few articles.

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Looking ahead... (start here for HMM)

Two weeks ago I semi-accidentally coined HELLAMETAMODERNISM as the name for the Californian (as opposed to Dutch or Nordic) school of metamodernism.

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Checking in...

It's been almost three months since I launched this site in the wake of Nora Bateson's charge that developmental stage theories are colonialist BS. Throughout that time I've been trying to fully articulate my ideas of a cyclical, non-teleological approach to the patterns seen in stage theories.

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The Ways of Being at the 50th Annual Gebser Conference

Two weeks ago I gave a talk on Gravesian theory and the Ways of Being (which is what I'm currently calling the diagram stuff) at Jeremy Johnson's local chapter of the 50th annual conference of the Gebser Society. The talk attempts a rather difficult balancing act of presenting enough Gravesian

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The Map Imposes on the Territory

The map is not the territory – Alfred Korzybski, 1931 In the Great Stage Theory Debate, Korzybski's famous quote has been referenced a great deal as a reason (or even the reason) to accept the mismatches between any given theory and the reality of living individuals and cultures.

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But the Data!

One of the more reasonable responses to the idea of deconstructing and reconsidering E-C theory is to point to Graves's data.

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Decolonizing Gravesian Theory: A Call to Action

Stage theory... Is BS. Always was. And it is colonial as hell. – Nora Bateson A few weeks ago, the above social media post kicked off the most fascinating and productive discussion I've ever seen around the topic of developmental stage theories.

A common E-C theory visualization showing progress to A'N', flanked by SD-colored spirals.

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Spiral Dynamics and E-C Theory

I recently gave a talk to the SDi Live group, nominally about the distinction between E-C theory and SD. While I did cover that distinction, the second half of the talk turned into a deep dive into A'N' and how it relates to AN, and B'O' and how it relates to BO.

Getting Started

Introduction: Maybe it's true insight. Maybe it's apophenia.

Humans are very good at finding patterns, whether they truly exist or not. The work I am sharing through this site started from a theory of patterns in people and cultures: Clare W. Graves's emergent cyclical levels of existence (a.k.a. E-C theory or ECLET), which is more often