The podcast explores the concept of liminality and its impact on societal structures, focusing on its role in rituals, history, and marginality. It discusses how liminality challenges societal norms and shapes political movements, emphasizing the transformative power of this concept.
Liminality challenges traditional beliefs in postmodern society, offering a new societal observation lens.
The relationship between structure and anti-structure, akin to tectonic plates, ensures societal evolution and adaptability.
Deep dives
Understanding Nihilism Beyond Existentialism and Stoicism
Nihilism, often linked to personal existential struggles, transcends into a concept of liminality that defines our postmodern society. This embracement of liminality challenges traditional beliefs, offering a different lens for societal observation.
The Dynamics of Structure and Anti-Structure in Society
The symbiotic relationship between structure and anti-structure mirrors the geological analogy of tectonic plates. Structure provides stability while anti-structure, like liminality, perpetuates renewal, ensuring society's evolution and adaptability.
Exploring Marginality and Inferiority in Cultural Contexts
Marginalized individuals, such as philosophers, shamans, and marginalized societal groups, like the structurally inferior and jesters, play unique roles in challenging societal norms and boundaries, offering fresh perspectives that influence cultural transformation.
We live in an age of Liminality. It's at the roots of the Meaning Crisis of Nihilism and Leftist value structures. Coming from the same Latin word as subliminal (*limin* meaning "threshold") it is a term that has entered the mainstream from its roots in Anthropology with the work of Victor Turner.
Victor Turner developed the concept in his work The Ritual Process. In this episode we will be answering the question what is Liminality and we'll be exploring it and its two cousins Marginality and Inferiority and how this trifecta shape the value structure of all society in the interplay between their Communitas/Antistructure with the world of politics economics and law — of status, power and competition — (which Turner calls "Structure"). ____________________
📚 Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. London: Routledge. - Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:10 The 3 Types of Antistructure 5:59 Liminality 10:27 Liminality: Beyond Ritual 14:10 Marginality 18:50 Inferiority 22:17 Overlapping Groups
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