embodied collective experience → antimeta

1. Against Meta-Narratives (Lyotard/Postmodernism) – A rejection of grand, universalizing explanations (e.g., progress, enlightenment, capitalism, socialism). Instead, it favors localized, fragmented, and contradictory perspectives.
2. Resisting Meta-Perspective – Critique of abstract, high-level theorization detached from lived experience, emphasizing embodied, situated, and affective modes of understanding.
3. Anti-Metaculture (Foster, Groys) – Opposition to second-order cultural reflections (curation, theorization, archival impulses). Focuses on immediacy, raw cultural production, and resisting over-intellectualization.
4. Anti-Meta as Tactical Subversion – Resisting algorithmic trends and dominant patterns in cultural production (e.g., breaking AI-driven aesthetic homogenization, rejecting market-driven “meta” strategies in art and music).
5. Refusal of Meta-Consumption – Avoiding self-referential cultural loops where art/music becomes about itself (e.g., nostalgia cycles, ironic self-awareness). Prefers authenticity, directness, and rupture.

1. Meta as Grand Narratives – Meta refers to overarching ideological structures (e.g., modernity, capitalism, Marxism) that claim to explain history, society, or culture in a totalizing way.
2. Meta as Detached Perspective – Meta means a removed, abstracted way of understanding culture rather than engaging with it directly. It’s about theorizing about something rather than participating in it.
3. Meta as Self-Referential Culture – Meta here refers to second-order cultural practices (e.g., curatorial discourse, theory, institutional framing) rather than raw artistic expression.
4. Meta as Dominant Trends/Patterns – Meta is used in a gaming/internet sense (e.g., "meta-strategy"), referring to whatever is optimized, dominant, or inescapable within a given cultural system (e.g., algorithmic aesthetics, predictable cultural patterns).
5. Meta as Cultural Self-Consciousness – Meta means culture that is aware of itself and loops back into its own references (e.g., nostalgic reboots, ironic pastiche, endless remixing instead of new creation).

1. Cultural Production Without Grand Justification – Making art, music, or theory without trying to fit it into a larger ideological framework. No manifesto, no overarching narrative—just doing.
2. Prioritizing Experience Over Analysis – Engaging with cultural forms intuitively rather than obsessing over their theoretical implications. Letting club events, performances, or installations be, rather than constantly framing them as social commentary.
3. Raw, Unmediated Creation – Rejecting over-curation, institutional approval, or intellectualized meta-discussions in favor of direct artistic expression. This could mean self-releasing music instead of waiting for a label, DIY spaces instead of galleries, or refusing to explain a work’s meaning.
4. Resisting Algorithmic & Trend-Based Culture – Avoiding the optimization of cultural output based on what works best within existing systems (e.g., refusing to chase Spotify-friendly music structures, Instagram aesthetics, or "engagement-driven" event programming).
5. Breaking Self-Referential Loops – Instead of endlessly remixing and referencing past cultural forms, anti-metawould push for original, unpredictable directions—rejecting nostalgic recycling, ironic detachment, and endless pastiche.
6. Local, Situated, and Context-Driven Practices – Emphasizing hyper-local, ephemeral, and transient culture over universal/globalized frameworks. Making something that only makes sense in a specific moment and place.
7. Refusal of the Meta-Perspective – Actively resisting the impulse to always zoom out, analyze, categorize, and explain. Letting contradictions exist without trying to resolve them into a clean theory.