Author: Greg Dember
We are generally very careful to avoid identifying individual humans as “being” metamodern. A person is far too complex to be reduced to one epistemic essence. The same goes …
It’s kind of nuts that in the five years since we started blogging on metamodernism, we haven’t yet written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a seminal metamodern cultural …
Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird won the 2017 Golden Globe Awards for Best Comedy/Musical and Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan). This may be the first film that treats the transition from postmodernism …
An Epistemic Taxonomy of Knowing and Shit
Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben Zeitlin), came out of nowhere and was nominated in several categories in the 2012 Academy Awards, including the …
This article was written during the “Pre-2020 comedy career” of JP. His career took a pretty decidedly non-metamodern turn, in that as of around 2020, he became focused on …
We regard Sufjan Stevens as one of the poster children for metamodernism, and no discussion of metamodernism in popular music is complete without taking a look at his work. Notable for weaving …
La La Land, the recently released film starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Damien Chazelle, does not submit complacently to categorization, but we feel it can be at least …
I honestly went to sleep last night clinging to the hope that Clinton would pull it together in PA, MI, WI, and NH somehow. I felt that if I …
Five-year-old Ainsley had her fifteen minutes of internet fame in the first week of June (2016), following her decision to come to Princess Week at her dance school dressed as a hot dog. What …