ALFRΞD STOLL

The new sensibility

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the Metamodern person recognizes that feelings and ideas that are obvious to them may not be such for another, due to which they can empathize with someone else's subjectivity without negatively differentiating themselves from another person. This allows one to consider several points of view simultaneously, perceive opposite ideas, and, as a consequence, more holistically, nonlinearly perceive the series of events and phenomena.

 

Life as a performance

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People with the traits of a metamodern person put themselves where, first of all, they can reveal and realize their creative potential. The border between life and art is inexorably dissolving, mixing them into a single whole, making human life a work of art. The most common way to do this is through performances, the stage for which is increasingly becoming social networks.

 

Social media performances

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There a person can set an aesthetic context, putting his own meanings into it and creating "myths" around his own person. These performances allow both the author and the viewer to transcend the norm for a short moment and rethink the boundaries that hold them back.

 

Creating atmospheres

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In addition to internal and external dialogue, to comprehend the truth, the metamodern person enters into co‑creation with reality by creating "atmospheres". The atmosphere is understood as non‑verbal communication with an object, based on the experience of feelings and ideas before they are comprehended in a common reality, both for the subject and for the object of perception, and has an ideal nature, since it is experienced by the very essence of the subject, which is also physically imperceptible, which contributes to the realization communicative unity with the truth.

 

The combination of forms creates an atmosphere

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German philosopher Gernot Boehme cites the ability of architecture to actively influence the viewer as an example of "atmosphere". "It is not the forms themselves that act on the beholder, but the atmosphere created through their combination." However, not only architecture or work of art has an individual atmosphere, but also any other perceived object.

 

The new sincerity

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Another important term in defining a modernist person is "new sincerity." The generation of the metamodern is characterized by contradictions that coexist without conflict with each other, thanks to which the fullness of culture is revealed to people, where it is possible, without shame and ignorance, to simultaneously perceive and love all genres of music, literature, films, etc., because in metamodern there is no high and low. Still, there is a single stream where every element is important, which allows you to experience sincere feelings, even while realizing that they may look ridiculous from the point of view of others.

 

Making mistakes is OK!

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The attitude of the metamodern person towards mistakes softens, with the understanding that they are part of development and can be corrected by a new strategy of behavior at any time. This satisfies the primary need for safety and contributes to further development and going beyond the established norms.

 

Our game

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The metamodern person perceives life as an interesting game, as a creative experiment in which he is constantly given tasks for your development. These tasks are called opportunities, and the tasks that you haven't completed are called challenges ‑ tests of strength to get the opportunity again. The metamodern person understands that one cannot stop the game or abandon the rules of the game, instead, a metamodern person changes the rules while playing, because constancy is illusory, and changes are inevitable, and whether these changes are positive or negative depends only on him.

 

To be or not to be?

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Oscillations between opposites explain that a person is not associated with any phenomenon and ultimately is not identified with anything. When asked to be or not to be, Metamodern Hamlet will choose the infinitely variable "or" as the Absolute inexorable truth somewhere in between.