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Mainstream metamodernism has no robust theory of culture. It has a cultural theory that describes one specific cultural moment, namely Metamodernism, derived only from a Western lineage. But a theory of culture must account for how several cultures develop, why different cultures develop differently, and how to identify distinct cultures across time and space.
"A theory of culture needs to account for how cultures develop, why different cultures develop in different ways and how to identify different cultures. A cultural theory is a description of a culture that describes or prescribes what a specific culture is or should be."
— Germane Marvel, A Metamodern Theory of CultureMoHD is a metamodern theory of culture because it uses diunital, both-and logic. It does not pose a false dichotomy between modern ideas of universalist structures or postmodern ideas of universalising cultural relativism. It posits that there is an underlying organisational process across humanity, but that it is additive rather than a negating process.
Each row represents a complete cultural formation. Reading down any column shows how that dimension develops in complexity. Reading across a row shows how that stage's culture coheres. Click any row to expand its full explication.