Author: Greg Dember
Note (9-18-24): An expanded version of this post is included in Greg Dember’s book, Say Hello to Metamodernism!. The Ben Folds Five was an American piano-based rock trio led …
Architecture has been one of the more important cultural forms discussed in the delineation and conceptualization of the modern and postmodern epistemes. Modernist architecture, in a nutshell, is generally characterized …
UPDATE: Sadly, the Somebody App was shut down on Oct. 31, 2015. From the app’s website: Despite the ridiculous challenges, one in four messages were delivered, and an average …
Starting off as scraggly “bedroom rock” and known for singer Conor Oberst’s quavery but impassioned vocals, the band Bright Eyes followed an aesthetic that could mostly be called postmodern for its first …
The notion of metamodernism is embedded in a larger progression of what, borrowing from Foucault, we refer to as epistemes: Tradition, Modern, Postmodern and, the new addition, Metamodern. We offered …
“Fuck You” by Ceelo Green is a “break-up anthem” that charmed the frown off the face of everyone who heard it in the Summer of 2010. We see it as an example …
The term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” was invented by critic Nathan Rabin, writing in 2007 for the web site The A.V. Club in order to explain his disappointment with …
If you are a human being who spends time on the Internet, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this May 2012 video documenting Isaac’s marriage proposal to his now-wife …
A Personal Post by Greg Dember On Facebook, a Christian friend of mine made a post about her Macbook dying at an especially crappy time, and she asked people …
Joss Whedon, whose many accomplishments include the creation of cult-favorite TV shows Buffy The Vampire Slayerand Firefly, spoke to the graduating class of 2013 at his alma mater, Wesleyan University. In …
