Conversations #14 - Jeremy Johnson
A conversation with the Founder of Nura Learning, Jeremy Johnson—
Hey Eclectic Spacewalkers!
Last month we had the pleasure of having a conversation with Jeremy Johnson.
Jeremy is a scholar, writer, publisher (Revelore Press), editor (Integral Leadership Review), integral philosopher, and the founder of Nura Learning. Jeremy is also the host of the mutations podcast and is the author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness.
Jeremy came to our attention, like most nowadays, through Twitter. Jeremy was a guest on late journalist Michael Brooks’ show and introduced us to the idea of Integral Consciousness. More recently, Jeremy wrote a chapter “Becoming the Planetary” in the newly printed Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity.
More recently, Jeremy wrote a chapter “Becoming the Planetary” in the newly printed Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity.
We thank Jeremy for his time, research, and eclectic mind.
We hope you enjoy the conversation!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:39 Who were Jeremy’s earliest influences?
10:15 Catalytic Readings: “The key, I think, is a reading that provokes; a move from an observer of distant mental categories to participant in lived realities.”
15:49 What is NURA Learning?
31:39 What is meta-modernism? What does it mean to live in the "Anthropocene?”
39:44 Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, Timothy Morton’s ‘Hyperobjects” like COVID, Climate Crisis, Military Industrial Complex, etc...
49:24 Living in a technological culture yet most do not get a sufficient enough education or tool kit to prosper within it, Globalization vs. Planetization, and ‘Doomer Optimism’
58:35 Writing Seeing Through the World and Jean Gebser’s influence
01:05:41 Consilience, Integral Consciousness and what the theory isn’t
01:09:54 Kulturphilosophie identifies key themes of the new mutation as they are made manifest in all cultural zones.
1:21:19 Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and Jean Gebser’s ‘Structures’
01:38:39 Jeremy's Answer to the Overview Effect Answer
“Kultuphilosophie: wherein he describes a “phenomenology of becoming consciousness” (Bewußtwerdungsphänomenologie) through a careful study of texts and cultural artifacts.
The main points roughly are:
a) time being taken into account as quality rather than (dividing) quantity,
b) the superseding of (perspectival) dualisms, and
c) arational modes of perception being introduced in all disciplines.”
Gebser elucidates this “becoming of consciousness” as a series of unfolding time-space ontologies, mutations, leaping forth at pivotal junctures—often civilizational crises—of human history, radically restructuring self and world, space and time. These ontologies spring forth out of a primordial “integral” ontology (Ursprung), creatively realized and manifested in human cultures.
“only an integral human being, one what has wared the whole, is capable of overcoming their own fragmentation and leaping from planetary crisis to planetary consciousness. This is our individual and collective task.”
“Nothing is too small.
It’s not about scale, but place.
We already have a felt sense to become Planetary.
You are already participating.”
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More on Jeremy Johnson:
Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness
https://revelore.press/product/seeing...
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=10...
‘Mutations’ Blog
https://www.mutations.blog/
Twitter
/ jdj_writes
NURA Learning
nuralearning.com/
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