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? ...
The opening story of Under the Wing, “Heroes,” is available to read online as a kind of teaser for the book, which has given me the wonderful opportunity to …
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 …
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!
Much has been made of the Barbenheimer phenomenon by culture pundits. Today I’m going to make a little more of it, putting forth the claim that Barbenheimer is, overall, …
In an email exchange with an art-and-culture critic friend prior to the film’s release, I shared the prediction, “I think Barbie is going to be philosophically meaningful while also …
This is a very lightly edited transcription of a presentation Greg Dember recently gave at the Melbourne Metamodernism Conference, February 2–3, 2023.
The Great, a 2020-21 production (Tony McNamara, Hulu), metamodernizes the storied myth-history of 18th century German-Prussian teenager Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst’s transition into her new identity as Catherine II, …
Can contemporary composers Jennifer Walshe and Robin Haigh be thought of as metamodern composers?
Here at What is Metamodern? we are in the business of finding exemplars of the metamodern sensibility in the arts and popular culture. One thing we’ve noticed consistently over …
