From Modernity to After-Modernity

What follows was written on 2021-08-15.

This series was first published in the form of blog posts over the span of 4 consecutive winters (2013-2014 to 2016-2017). These were a first draft that I formatted into a book series about the transition “From Modernity to After-Modernity”.

The core of my argument is that humanity is entering a transition toward a new societal era. Once fully formatted I left the material simmering in my subconscious while immersing myself in digital variations of my “Grand Project” paintings. By October 2020 I had realized 10 collections of digital works and felt ready to edit the material of the first volume in this series.

Here follows :

--- a summary about how this series developed in 3 stages

--- thereafter follows a more thorough presentation of each of these stages.

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Summary

1. The 1st stage started with blog posts. (2013-2017)

As mentioned here above I published blog posts over the span of 4 consecutive winters (2013-2014 to 2016-2017). These were a first draft that I formatted into a book series about the transition “From Modernity to After-Modernity” that totaled nearly 2,000 book pages. I was initially tackling a simple question : "What is art ?". But I rapidly found out that to answer that question I had to go back to the origins of art in the paleolithic. Once there I was confronted to the question of its emergence and I found out that this relates to the field of societal evolution. And so I have been engaged in an intellectual adventure of discovery that started in the winter of 2013

2. The 2nd stage = first book customization. (2018)

I customized the whole thing in 3 books :
Book 1 : 2 Volumes
Book 2 : 5 Volumes
Book 3 : 1 Volume.

3. The 3rd and final stage = final book customization (starting in 2020)

I finally settled on a customization of the material in 5 volumes of approximately 600 pages each with a 6th volume as a 100 page synthesis of the material in those 5 volumes.

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Development of this series

3. Final customization and editing 2. Book structuring 1. Blogs posts

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3rd stage = final customization and editing

Books are available on my Website for download.

Volume 1 : The Continuum of the Cultural Field.

705 pages. First published on 2021-06-26

Volume 2 : Modernity.

Work in progress.

Publishing estimated by end of 2021.

Volume 3 : The Formation of societal knowledge.

Estimated publishing by end of 2022.

Volume 4 : The arts.

Estimated publishing sometime during the year 2023.

Volume 5 : Societal evolution and societal governance.

Estimated publishing by the end of 2024.

Volume 6 : 100 pages Synthesis.

Estimated publishing sometime during the year 2025.

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What follows was written on 2019-11-14.

2nd stage = Book structuring

I formatted my series of blog posts "From Modernity to After-Modernity" in book form. After I terminate the editing of the first draft I'll make the books available. But as I mention elsewhere "I’m afraid that editing this massive first draft will take a few more years…" The images of the book covers are thus only given as illustrations of the subjects they cover.