![]() ![]() 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. I think Scales of Conviction is actually a great name for the game, but I’m not a marketing person so who knows.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. “ Project Triangle Strategy” is fine as a working title, but we need something a little sexier for a final name. That’s probably the most disappointing part of the whole announcement – aside from the name, I guess. The demo gave me just enough to get my hype as hell for the full release, for which we have no expected launch date. I can’t wait to see what other kinds of terrain elements can be manipulated in this way in the full game. ![]() So, using melted ice walls you can create a field of water that increases the damage range of the lightning bolt to more enemies than some spells with larger inherent target areas. Another character can cast a lightning bolt the bolt will disperse and damage any enemy standing in adjacent submerged tiles. However, it leaves behind standing water on the tiles where the wall used to be. For instance, one character can summon a small ice wall that melts after a few turns. The second battle (of the route I chose, anyway) introduces even more variety to your tactical options by adding new characteristics to the battlefield itself. Funneling enemy troops into the teeth of your attack is a potent strategy for overcoming the enemies’ superior numbers and protecting your weaker units, and I look forward to exploring this more fully in the full game. It introduces a few cool ideas for controlling the conditions of the battlefield, such as the ability to summon barriers to allow players to control the movement of enemy units to a degree. The basics of moving units and attacking are the same as most any strategy RPG you care to name. The combat mechanics are fairly standard for the first of the game’s two scenarios. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |