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Labubu has emerged as one of the buzziest Consumer Products of 2025. They’re of interest for how they embody certain aesthetic paradoxes we talk about here at What is Metamodern? ...
I read his poem “Peanut Butter Story” ... Linda ... voiced something I’d also been secretly thinking: It’s got that metamodern j' ne sais quoi!
Timotheus Vermeulen, with his colleague Robin van den Akker, wrote the 2010 essay “Notes on Metamodernism” that effectively kick-started contemporary discourse on the post-millennial aesthetic sensibility characterized – in …
Our guest Camden Ostrander is an expert on all things Donald Glover/Childish Gambino and the writer behind Season 7 of the Dissect Podcast which explores in depth Childish Gambino's …
WiM Conversations is a series of videos in which we chat with other theorists, artists and culture-makers who involve themselves with metamodernism. Our second guest is Arielle Bernstein, a …
This is our first VidCast episode! WiM Conversations is a series of videos in which we chat with other theorists, artists and culture-makers who involve themselves with metamodernism. Our …
A WiM reader* turned us on to “Cute House”– an episode of The Dress Up Gang, which is a show on the cable channel TBS, and that’s about all …
A Metamodernism Sighting: Jimmy Fallon in the Basement! During this COVID-19 pandemic and social-distancing lockdown, television and film production has ground to a halt, understandably. Plenty of series and …
This whole time I thought changing the world was something you did.An act you performed, something you fought for.I don’t know if that’s true anymore. What if changing the …