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Introduction
This is a collection of ideas, observations and solutions to the current technological time frame we are entering. Even though the majority of the world's population are in poverty, technology seems to be the only yardstick of our distance from our animal origins. After writing about the various changes in society, born in the analogue technology of copper wires, switches and basic computers, phasing into the internet birth and hyper digitalisation of the human form on the cusp of artificial intelligence. From Modernity to post modernity and Hypermodernity. We are now at the iconoclasm of the mirror effect in the neural networking echo chamber. The Medusa or hydra of technology has become the Greek chorus of tragedy in which all unconscious content is now invested into a black cube, smart phone or server farm. These farms of language and images located around the interconnected world in mostly unpopulated and cold climates have the express purpose of feeding our mind. So where does this lead to a society playing an avatar with its own objectivity and the evolution of the human being? Everyone vying for definition in an increasingly undefined world. Which has its benefits and pitfalls.
So as the saying goes. "If it's broken, break it in half." Yet at this point in history almost everyone is waiting for the archetypal moment of the eschaton that defines the next phase of humanity. People are tired of the old ways and the new plural versions of alternate worlds and choices are not visceral enough for the masses. Zero consequential earthly realm leads to more cognitive dissonance, violence and lack of innovation. It's the age old question of who wants to be responsible for the fall? Who wants to wear the badge of history marking the moment it all comes crashing down, and it must be rebuilt in the shadow of shame or sadness? Well who is it?
“Para; to be alongside.”
Chapter 1: ParaModernity.
“Brief lineage of the term of invention”
Splitting the words into meanings is sometimes the best way of giving an explanation.
Modernity; Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissance—in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century, The historical epoch following the Renaissance,
Postmodernity; (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s. Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterised by scepticism toward the "grand narratives" of modernism, opposition to epistemic certainty or stability of meaning, and emphasis on ideology as a means of maintaining political power.
Metamodernism; () Metamodernism is a term that refers to a range of developments observed in many areas of art, culture and philosophy, emerging in the aftermath of postmodernism, roughly at the turn of the 21st century. Metamodernists characterise it as mediations between aspects of modernism and postmodernism; Metamodernism suggests transgressing cultural codes. Metamodernism is one of a number of attempts to describe post-postmodernism. The multiplicity of meaning that obfuscates its one meaning passed traditional forms of irony or cultural establishments.
Hypermodernity; (supermodernity) is a type, mode, or stage of society that reflects an inversion of modernity. Hypermodernism stipulates a world in which the object has been replaced by its own attributes. The new attribute-driven world is driven by the rise of technology.
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