Dr. Daniel P. Görtz (b. 1983) is a sociologist and social theorist who has taken a playful and experimental stance on his vocation. After finishing his Ph.D. in police ethnography (on the role of ethnicity in police work in south Sweden) he moved to the Alps to commit himself to the philosophy, culture, and politics of metamodernism. Since then he has released two books (with a co-author, Emil Ejner Friis) under a pen name and became an established voice for a more political form of metamodernism. Building on former welfare structures and high social trust, Scandinavian and some other countries may begin to cultivate a "listening society" in which the existential potentials and needs are met. This is the topic that he will explore in the context of the Elevate Festival.