The lecture will begin with a short introduction to the different stages of thought, modern, postmodern, metamodern, followed by a presentation of the five common habits of thought to be found in metamodern people: 1) an awareness of allergies, 2) a belief in development and progress, 3) an understanding of hierarchies, 4) aiming at reconstruction and 5) thinking ‘both-and’.

Emil Ejner Friis (Stenløse, 1981) is a Danish/Swedish writer and philosopher and a co­founder of the think tank project Metamoderna. He has helped the great Hanzi Freinacht publish The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two (2017) and its sequel, Nordic Ideology (2019). For the past few years he has also been working as a developmental editor for the writer, philanthropist and ex­financier Tomas Björkman on the books Världen vi skapar (2017) and the new and updated English language edition titled The World We Create (2019). He is currently working on a new secret book project together with Hanzi Freinacht and his close ally Daniel Görtz. In addition, he’s tinker­ing about at the progressive IT­com­pany Glimworks in Lund, Sweden and is involved in the planning of the construction of a Metamodern mon­astery in Kiev, Ukraine.