Brent Cooper

Abstraction, metamodernism, political philosophy — complexity reduction, civilizational sensemaking, and the meta think-tank approach to systemic social transformation

The Abs-Tract Organization

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Brent Cooper is a philosopher, writer, and executive director of The Abs-Tract Organization (TATO), a meta think tank based in Vancouver dedicated to absolute social philosophy and global civil society. His work conceptualizes “abstraction” as a process of complexity reduction for solving systemic social problems, situated within a broader metamodernist project for post-ideological, globally responsive civilization. He writes extensively on Medium and has been involved in metacrisis and civilizational risk research networks.

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Systems Thinking3

Civilizational Risk2

Sensemaking2

Political Philosophy2

Epistemology1

Collective Intelligence1

Ontological Design1

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Matthew David Segall

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Abstraction as Political Act: What AI Builders Leave UnexaminedThe blind spots we scale into gods.
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