![]() The Moaners aren’t a band in the traditional sense. ![]() Lehane III (photo by Greg Kirk) What be dem Moaners? Lehane has become such a sizable force in the local cultural milieu, the question mush be asked: What hath Pumpkinhead wrought? ![]() In the process, he has almost singlehandedly documented the persistent underground music scene in Neware and environs. Along with several Newark rock compilations, Lehane has foisted over 10,000 tapes on the northern Delaware community. Lehane III, better know as “ Pumpkinhead,” has issued numerous cassette tapes from a band called the Moaners. Working late at night with no one left around, We’re technicians cranking out the sound, (Editor’s note: Mike Walsh is the editor of Expresso Tilt! magazine) As such, (1) the tropology of the social field (2) philosophy of art and aesthetics (3) art history and (4) art criticism-evaluation are the four metadisciplinary matrices that vertically and non-hierarchically constellate as art's transciplinarity.What Hath Pumpkinhead Wrought? He has almost singlehandedly documented Newark’s underground music scene, but those who have met Jerry Lehane III may still have cause to wonder… The motivation for this project comes from seeing how the various disciplines engaging art today have respective strengths and weaknesses, being only partially open to one another other for inspiration and insight. It opens with the question: “what does the socio-cultural world need to be like for art to have emerged and endured as a human activity and product?” A answer to this question, as retrodictive explanation (proper to critical realist social theory ), is that art emerges as response to the tetra-arising matrix of certain type of psychic, bodily, cultural, and systemic tensions and contradictions – this matrix always already dialectical in the Bhaskerian sense. This paper is prolegomena to art’s transdisciplinarity, a project ontologically motivated through inquiry into the transcendental conditions of art. I then apply this visionary realist framework to sketch the contours of the metacrisis at large, analyzing and synthesizing the philosophical, cultural, and psychological aspects of the metacrisis to identify key principles and holistic solution patterns that may inform deliberate social transformation. Thus, in this thesis, I deploy the methodology of hermeneutical dialectics and the method of immanent critique to forge a non-preservative synthesis of aspects of these two metatheories into a new metatheory-a visionary realism-that might help us to better understand and wisely respond to the metacrisis. I advance these aims, first, by reflection on the nature, role, and function of metatheory in geo-historical context, articulating a vision for the revindication of metatheory as integrative metatheory 2.0 and, second, the development of the contours of a particular metatheory through an exploratory-dialogical encounter between what are arguably amongst the most comprehensive and sophisticated integrative metatheories arising in the wake of postmodernism: namely, critical realism, founded by Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014), and integral theory, founded by Ken Wilber (1949–). I argue that metatheory in its appropriate form provides indispensable intellectual scaffolding for the crucial psycho-spiritual, cultural, and social transformations demanded by these interconnected global challenges, or what I call the metacrisis. This thesis aims to support the conditions for the emergence of a eudaimonistic, free flourishing planetary society by helping ignite the potentials of metatheory as a transformational cultural force vis-à-vis our complex twenty-first century challenges. ![]()
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