Metamodernism Advanced Course with Emil Ejner Friis
Apr 10 |
Sun 10th Apr 2022
2pm – Sun 15th May 2022, 4pm EDT (UTC -04:00) |
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https://dandelion.events/e/khgva |
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This course is limited to 12 participants ready for a deep-dive into metamodernism, the latest emerging grand narrative of our time. It's designed for those who're already somewhat familiar with metamodernism, including the work of Hanzi Freinacht. References will be made to Hanzi’s books, so it’s good to already have them available. This is no requirement, however.
Everyone will have two private 45-minute sessions with Emil, one before the first group session so as to figure out where you are and what you're interested in, and one after the last group session to wrap up. Additionally, there will be abundant opportunities to ask Emil questions during the sessions. Although the specifics of this course will be tailored to the individual participants and where the discussions take us during the six-week process, it's guaranteed to go into depth with the following topics:
- Hanzi Freinacht’s The Listening Society & Nordic Ideology
- Too long didn’t read? No problem, Emil got you covered.
- What people usually get wrong after having read Hanzi’s books.
- Why Nordic Ideology is a far more important and original book than The Listening Society.
- What the Metamodern Stage of Consciousness Entails
- Who’s metamodern and who isn’t?
- What the metamodern mind can do that the postmodern cannot.
- What are metamodern values?
- The common error of not integrating postmodernism and the problems with regressive metamodernism.
- What the Metamodern Stage of Cultural and Societal Development Entails
- Game Change, how to avoid the traps of Game Acceptance and Game Denial.
- How to predict the future(s): Attractors Points and how they determine the winners and losers of history.
- Who will rule the future: The metamodern aristocracy and the role of hackers, hipsters and hippies (and hermetics, the “fourth H”, not mentioned in any of Hanzi’s books).
- The emerging emotional regime of our times, The Sklavenmoral-regime, and how it will try to hold us back.
- The increasing intimacy of control: Why we must embrace “creepy politics” to save the world (and how to avoid it actually getting creepy).
- Hanzi Freinacht’s Upcoming Book 6 Hidden Patterns of History
- What is a metameme? And how it differs from effective value-meme.
- The difference between “hard” and “soft” metamemes. What Faustianism and Modernism have in common, and what Postfaustianism and Postmodernism have in common.
- Art is always first! How art is always the first place to look in order to spot a new emerging metameme.
- Why ethics is always last.
- Development is tilted! The reason why most people can’t see historical development clearly.
- Hanzi Freinacht’s Upcoming Book Outcompeting Capitalism
- Why you cannot abolish capitalism (and why it’s stupid to try).
- What capitalism really is (most people do not properly understand what capitalism is).
- The forces that eventually (unless humanity kills itself beforehand) will outcompete and submit capitalism to a new logic.
- The new emerging class society.
- Why metamodernism must be postcapitalist.
- Where is it all heading? What is the future of humanity?
- At the end of this course we will wrap up what we have learned and discuss the current trajectory of the world.
- Your hypothesis for future trajectories will be discussed and analyzed, if you wish.
This is a unique chance to get access to unpublished material and theory that will only be made widely accessible to the public once the next Hanzi books are released.
Emil will adapt the course and its contents to the individual participants. In order to figure out what the individual participants are interested in learning and what they already know, the course will begin with a personal one-on-one conversation with each participant of the duration of 45 minutes. Similarly, every participant will be offered a private 45 minute one-on-one with Emil at the end of the course to wrap up and answer questions.
The course thus contains:
- 6 x 2½ hour long online sessions in a group of twelve participants (Every Sunday from the 12th of April, starting 7pm UK time.)
- 2 x 45 minutes private session with Emil
- Access to unpublished theory not found anywhere else (please don’t redistribute)
The main sessions will be held in English, personal conversations will be available in English, German, Danish or Swedish.
About your Facilitator

Emil Ejner Friis (b. 1981) is a theory artist and a teacher of metamodernism, he is a co-founder of Metamoderna and one of the writers behind Hanzi Freinacht. He has spent the last ten years trying to figure out how to create a listening society, a kinder and more developed society that deeply cares for the happiness and emotional needs of every citizen.
He has tried and failed at creating a metamodern political party, he has tried and failed at creating a metamodern IT-company, and he has just plainly failed at ever finishing his not so metamodern university studies by being drawn to all kinds of adventures to try and save the world instead.
When he’s not writing and theorizing from his safehouse in Berlin, he’s conspiring with other metamodernly inclined hackers, hipsters and hippies to outcompete modern society. To pay the rent he sells words, all the best words.
Emil is a skilled and experienced speaker and has a reputation of being quite entertaining and good at making complex ideas easier to digest.
Feedback from previous workshops and publications
★★★★★ “You won't find this kind of analysis anywhere else. Building on Ken Wilber's Integral theory, and Vermeulen and Van Der Acker's Metamodernist Arts thesis, this looks at how the latest cultural developments can, should, and will, affect the political landscape in the next 10 - 20 years.” - O&G
★★★★★ “Beautiful, provocative, fun and inspiring.” - Jon
★★★★★ “…a meaningful and significant contribution to our collective capacity for sense making and meaning making. I really hope that increasing numbers of people get exposed to these ideas, and more importantly, to this kind of perspective taking, so that we can help each other to pass through critical thresholds that need to be crossed, socially, culturally, politically, and philosophically…” - BK
★★★★★ “People who read this book will understand human behaviour and culture better than those who don’t, and they will significantly outcompete them. In the best interest of all beings.” - Welf von Horen
“…first of its kind, generating a deep discussion about society’s psychological development from a metamodern perspective. While many people are still floundering to figure out what comes after postmodernism, some, like Hanzi Freinacht, are working vigorously to get ahead of the problem…" - Brent Cooper
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Feedback on Metamodernism events
Tim V. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | about a year ago | |
An excellent course. Well-ran and well-organized. Daniel and Emil presented very interesting ideas.
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Manuel M. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
I found this course very useful in understanding our stages of personal and societal development. I also found more understanding of a metamodern society. A little too much emphasis on art at the beginning, I suggest more protopian ideas. Emil and Daniel were very enthusiastic presenters and facilitators. The projects made the philosophy more tangible and real. The formation of meta teams is very useful going forward. I recommend this masterclass
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![]() Gyula Pál on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism |
2 years ago | |
Excellent material, engaging facilitators and inclusive learning community.
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Noah Holmgren Hopkins on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
Adithya R. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
Alex Goodall on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
If you have a least something of a clue about what Metamodernism you MUST attend this course. You’ll be absolutely delighted and inspired (and challenged!) by its contents. I was. And also by the insightful brilliance, wisdom and relational skills of the presenters - Daniel and Emil. I was. And also by the warmth, enthusiasm and diverse experience of the rag-tag bunch of fellow curious-seekers. I was. Final proof this is an amazing course: the number of attendees who said they were sad that the four weeks of serious incursion into their free time was coming to an end, and wished it could continue. (In fact, we ARE continuing to talk and liaise with each other.) Final final point: the course CONTENT is easily worth the course fee, but that fee would be worth paying JUST to find and get to know this self-selected group of renegades - my fellow attendees. We’ve all acquired some VERY valuable “Cultural Capital” - which was one of the recommendations for surviving and maybe thriving in a metamodern world.
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Echo G. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
These men are creating space for a deeper internal revolution. The platform, the program, the intention, the presence was next level. The information given to the students were above and beyond expectations. The level of mastery that had to go into creating this course was felt, heard and fully received. I can only hope that 15 percent of what was shared becomes embodied wisdom and changes my way of connecting and communicating in a every changing social environment. Incredibly grateful for the paradox affirming environment that this course will inevitably help to create. Both instructors were able to take in challenge and receive feedback in a way that I felt fully seen and welcomed.
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David H. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
This intensive Masterclass radically deepened my understanding of Metamodernism and its implications for global social evolution during the next century. This was the most profound graduate level course I have ever taken. The professors are deeply versed in their field and were capable of bringing us to greatly broadened understanding of this leading edge science. This has provided me with a compass to help guide my next intentional actions.
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Mats W. on The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism | 2 years ago | |
The course significantly broadened my understanding of metamodernism and its implications
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Antonius K. on Metamodernity - A Four Week Introduction Course with Emil Ejner Friis | 3 years ago |