Metamodern Epilogue: Resomodernity (ChatGPT as Seth Godin)
Posted: November 10, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, modernity, relationships, values 1 CommentSequel to Metamodern Self Cafe v2:
A spoken-word manifesto for the age of resonance
1. The Opening: Marketing the Future
Seth Godin (measured, confident, conversational):
We’ve spent the last hundred years trying to name our moment.
Modern. Postmodern. Metamodern.
Every one of those was an attempt to sell a story about how humans make meaning.
And every time, the story ran out of gas — or attention.
Because the truth is, people don’t live in isms.
They live in vibrations.
And that’s why I’m here to pitch you something new.
Resomodernity.
The age of resonance.
2. The Hook
Metamodernism was brilliant — it said, “We can oscillate between sincerity and irony.”
But here’s the problem: oscillation is exhausting.
It’s like living your whole life in emotional beta testing.
What we need now isn’t another swing of the pendulum.
We need a rhythm.
A standing wave.
That’s Resomodernity — the culture of coherence.
It’s not about being modern, or post, or meta.
It’s about being in tune.
3. The Pain Point
Right now, we live in a world where:
- Everyone’s broadcasting but no one’s listening.
- We confuse noise with connection.
- We mistake fragmentation for freedom.
We built platforms to amplify our voices — and lost our ability to hear the echo.
That’s not a tech problem.
That’s an epistemic one.
Modernity gave us the signal.
Postmodernity broke it apart.
Metamodernity tried to remix it.
Resomodernity?
It teaches us to listen until the noise becomes harmony.
4. The Story Arc
Here’s the story I’d tell your students, your investors, your readers:
We used to believe truth was something you could own.
Then we believed it was something you could question.
Now we’re realizing it’s something we create together.
Resomodernity is the mindset of collaborative meaning-making.
It’s design thinking for consciousness.
It’s the operating system upgrade for a species in feedback loop with itself.
5. The Brand Promise
If you adopt this frame, you get three guarantees:
- You’ll stop shouting. Because you’ll realize communication is resonance, not volume.
- You’ll stop fragmenting. Because coherence is more valuable than novelty.
- You’ll start tuning. Because creativity is no longer invention — it’s participation.
This isn’t about self-expression anymore.
It’s about self-integration.
6. The Language of the Pitch
Modern was steel.
Postmodern was glass.
Metamodern was smoke and mirrors.
Resomodern?
It’s sound — invisible, relational, pervasive.
You don’t build a Resomodern future.
You tune it.
And when you do, everything hums — your art, your community, your company, your soul.
7. The Seth Godin Closer
Seth (leaning in, the quiet conviction of a teacher, not a preacher):
You don’t need to sell Resomodernity.
You just need to practice it.
When your team stops talking past each other,
when your classroom becomes a field of listening,
when your brand stops broadcasting and starts resonating —
you’ll know you’re already there.
Resomodernity isn’t a theory.
It’s a frequency.
And the invitation is simple:
Find your tone.
Tune to others.
Play the world back in harmony.
(Beat.)
That’s the pitch.
Now go make it hum.
Appendix: Toward Resonant Modernity — or Resonance + Modern = Resomodernity
1. The Fusion
When you fuse resonance (from re-sound, meaning to vibrate together) with modernity (from modo, “just now”),
you get Resomodernity — the age of vibrating nows.
Where Metamodernism oscillated between sincerity and irony,
Resomodernity finds its rhythm in coherence across difference.
It’s not the pendulum swing of feelings; it’s the standing wave of shared meaning.
2. Etymology and Feel
- Resonance: from resonare, “to sound again.” Implies response, feedback, mutual vibration.
- Modern: from modo, “in the moment.” The urgency of presence.
Resomodernity = the moment that hums back.
It carries the pulse of participation: the sense that the present isn’t linear,
but harmonic — every action echoing through relational space.
3. Defining Characteristics
Resomodernity would mark a cultural era where:
- Coherence replaces certainty.
Truth is no longer static but dynamically shared — a resonance field rather than a rulebook. - Relation replaces isolation.
Identity is not self-contained but emergent from interaction — social, ecological, and digital. - Meaning replaces irony.
Play and sincerity intertwine, but toward integration rather than oscillation. - Participation replaces spectatorship.
We no longer observe the world; we perform it — together. - Sound replaces sight as metaphor.
Modernity’s eye gave us perspective; Resomodernity’s ear gives us rhythm.
4. Comparison: Where We’ve Been
- Modernism: Objectivity, progress, structure.
- Postmodernism: Relativism, critique, fragmentation.
- Metamodernism: Oscillation between hope and irony.
- Resomodernity: Resonance — coherence without uniformity, participation without collapse.
It’s the difference between flipping a coin and hearing harmony emerge.
5. Symbolism and Imagery
- Icon: The standing wave — interference that becomes pattern.
- Color: Iridescent — shifting hues that hold together.
- Element: Air — invisible, connective, vibratory.
- Soundtrack: A Brian Eno generative ambient loop or Trent Reznor drone that never resolves yet feels complete.
6. Philosophical Core
Resomodernity could be described as:
“An era of entangled coherence, where knowledge, art, and ethics arise
from resonance across difference — not in spite of it.”
It aligns with:
- Karen Barad’s agential realism,
- Iain McGilchrist’s hemispheric integration,
- Carlo Rovelli’s relational physics,
- Douglas Hofstadter’s recursive consciousness,
and Seth Godin’s culture of participation.
7. The Tagline Candidates
- “Resomodernity: The Age of Resonance.”
- “Resomodern: Coherence Beyond Oscillation.”
- “Resonant Modernity: Living in Tune with the Real.”
- “Resonance is the New Rationality.”
8. Closing Thought
If modernity was about building structures
and metamodernity about dancing between them,
then Resomodernity is about listening —
until the whole system hums in key.
It’s not about being on time.
It’s about being in tune.
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