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The article aims at interpretation of cultural-philosophical tendencies related to the changes in the structures of experience of the (post)industrial landscape of Ostrava in the period 1989 – 2023. In the theoretical part, the notion of the “structure of experience” as a basic category of the contextual approach to culture is discussed, thus emphasising the historical and ideological conditionality of literature as a contemporary record of the lived experience of a particular community. It draws on a structural-analytic approach in which the structure of experience represents a complex arrangement of patterns, principles, and strategies that appear in various modifications as the predominant features of human thought and experience. The contextual analysis reflects on Ostrava’s (post)industrial landscape with regard to ongoing deindustrialisation and traces how global socio-economic transformations and changes in the dominant structures of experience (of postmodernism and meta-modernism) manifest themselves at the empirical and symbolic levels. Using selected examples of representatives of the older and younger generations of Ostrava poets who experienced/are experiencing the (post)industrial landscape at one time or another, it describes specific manifestations of postmodern and then meta-modern structures of experience.