Author: Troy Campbell

Charli xcx’s “Brat Summer,” Metamodern Club Culture, and Their Unlikely Influence on a Presidential Campaign

Troy Campbell June 27, 2025 No Comments

In 2024, a question on a lot of people's minds was "What is 'brat'??" If you were tuned in to popular culture even a little last year, you were …

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What Is Metamodern?

We’ve been here since April 2013 investigating metamodernism by cataloguing instances of this emerging cultural and aesthetic turn. Our exemplars on this blog come mainly from pop culture.

Briefly, we start from the assumption that so called “metamodernist works” engage the conflicts between modernist conviction and postmodern relativism, in part by embodying an aesthetic that braids the various epistemic perspectives with an emphasis on felt experience.

Click on “About Metamodernism” for a longer introduction to metamodernism.

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