Maintaining the full integrity of the content, format the following transcript into paragraphs: a la leotard interestingly we see hints of this idea and Jameson’s conclusion to his work post-modernism reflecting on a diagnosis for confronting the Mirage metaphysical notions for him this looks like quote the effort to imagine a way of living that could radically eschew these illusions a life and time capable of doing without belonging to become me in itself for itself what the religion is called God and this down to the very micro structure of our most minut gestures and feelings this epic alai deal of anti transcendent human existence is surely one of the most glorious of all post Nietzschean enlightenment visions which tracks religion metaphysics and transcendence into the most seemingly secular spaces and events of an only apparently enlightened modern world yet what is worth asking today about this seemingly utopian and unrealizable vision of an authentic or text realized existence in full post-modernism is whether it may not very precisely be one of the transformations of everyday life and of the psychic subject designated by the term postmodern [Music] so much for the synthesis of these three seminal formulations of the postmodern the elephant in the room was no less than quote what the religions call God at least in the extent that God is the traditional epitome of transcendence what post-modernism signaled and one could say was the loss or removal of spirituality itself from cultural production in philosophy the arts etc Nietzsche’s prophetic utterance issued almost a century earlier had been fulfilled God was indeed and at last dead the importance of this becomes crucial when considering what’s happening now for post-modernism has seen a wide scale rejection in the past decade as we have been discussing specifically its totalizing eminences what has come under scrutiny people are not so keen it turns out on living in a world without meaning and depth place and purpose indeed from this perceived lack has sprung the whole postmodern crisis of identity this dissatisfaction and disillusionment with postmodern imminence is less occasion to the return of what I am calling dimensionality an non monastic multiplanar mapping of reality that allows for some relationship between different modes of existence and thus depth meaning even teleology generally speaking this return is taking two forms the first is simple reaction a conservative backlash against the whole postmodern paradigm and an eager repository and dentals but the traditional imminent transcendent paradigm was only one form of dimensionality the one lost in post-modernism with the collapse of multidimensionality into the singular plane of totalized imminence with the end of post-modernism you’re seeing not only the return of this old model of dimensionality from conservative voices but also other new models in these returns of dimensionality the postmodern imminent frame is not actually rejected at all but rather sublet it or complexified it’s not just a tease from it some analogy of transcendence and an imminent transcendence here a new horizon opens up a kind of sub dimensionality where the relationship is not the old below of natural supernatural this world other world etc but rather more based in intra imminent language such as outer inner constituent or emergent self for universe even unhelpful constructs and helpful constructs imminence itself is reconsidered you might say is the new locus of transcendence one can already see this sensibility in Hassan’s essay it is why the author is so keen to qualify his truth trust and spirit is being poked all uncapitalized this is why his recourse to universals must be positioned as empirical and not platonic the desires for transcendence but of a kind shorn from metaphysics further this revived sense of dimensionality seems to explain the seeming return of modern and pre-modern ideas methods and forms in actuality they’re not necessarily the same old ideas and methods at all their similarity to earlier forms to both sharing a commitment to dimensionality but the spirit of asanas miles away from say Hegel’s spirit and obviously much further still from the holy spirit of traditional Christianity its spirit reinvented [Music] you [Music] [Applause]