Ecological collapse, technological disruption, existential despair, geopolitical anarchy, social fragmentation — the co-arising metacrisis.
The old stories can't carry us through alone. A new one is taking shape, big enough to hold the whole.
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Everything that exists unfolds layer by layer.
From the structuring of matter to the flowering of culture, the universe builds itself through distinct levels of organization, each emerging from—but never collapsible into—the one below it.
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Integrative metatheory 2.0 is the attempt to recover big-picture thinking without repeating modernity's totalizing mistake.
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Robb Smith, Nick Hedlund, Brendan Graham Dempsey introduce Integrative Metatheory 2.0, bringing the most rigorous big-picture frameworks, including critical realism, integral, process philosophy & metamodernism, into sustained dialogue with each other.
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We start our story with the first pattern, or lens — that of Depth.
Everything that exists unfolds layer by layer — from the structuring of matter to the flowering of culture — each level emerging from, but never collapsible into, the one below → https://t.co/BFLTfcEtWf
5/5 The discussion takes on the hard questions this project has to face: how to hold scientific rigor alongside genuine spiritual depth, and why the conditions for doing this work may be uniquely available right now.
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1/5 The metacrisis runs deeper than most accounts suggest. Beneath the visible crises of governance and climate lies a more fundamental problem: the fragmentation of knowledge itself.
4/5 The goal is practical: to develop a worldview coherent enough to help policymakers and leaders navigate planetary-scale problems, with outputs including books and textbooks grounded in this synthesis.