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“Peanut Butter Story” – a Metamodern poem by John Howard

WiM January 28, 2025 No Comments
“Peanut Butter Story” – a Metamodern poem by John Howard
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!
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‘I Double Dare You’: BARBENHEIMER as Metamodern Pheno-meme-non

Linda Ceriello December 6, 2023 No Comments
‘I Double Dare You’: BARBENHEIMER as Metamodern Pheno-meme-non
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, …
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The Good, the Bad and the Pretty: A Metamodern Review of the Barbie Movie

Greg Dember October 27, 2023 No Comments
The Good, the Bad and the Pretty: A Metamodern Review of the Barbie Movie
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 …
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Metamodernism Theory: Oscillation Revisited

Greg Dember March 1, 2023 No Comments
Metamodernism Theory: Oscillation Revisited
This is a very lightly edited transcription of a presentation Greg Dember recently gave at the Melbourne Metamodernism Conference, February 2–3, 2023.
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The Great Is Masterfully, Metamodernly Great TV

Linda Ceriello January 22, 2023 No Comments
The Great Is Masterfully, Metamodernly Great TV
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, …
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Here’s to the Dreamers: Jennifer Walshe, Robin Haigh and the Birth of the Metamodern Composer

Zygmund De Somogyi December 16, 2022 No Comments
Here’s to the Dreamers: Jennifer Walshe, Robin Haigh and the Birth of the Metamodern Composer
Can contemporary composers Jennifer Walshe and Robin Haigh be thought of as metamodern composers?
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Everything Metamodern All at Once

Greg Dember June 27, 2022 No Comments
Everything Metamodern All at Once
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 …
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MM MEME

WiM April 1, 2022 No Comments
MM MEME
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In Defense of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up: A Metamodern Reading

Greg Dember January 29, 2022 No Comments
In Defense of Adam McKay’s <i>Don’t Look Up:</I> A Metamodern Reading
Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and featuring a star-studded cast, premiered on Netflix on December 24, 2021 and can be described as a satirical, apocalyptic, science-fiction film. …
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Little Inferno: An Indie Game Full of Metamodern Surprises

Meredith Pasahow November 10, 2021 No Comments
Little Inferno: An Indie Game Full of Metamodern Surprises
With this guest-authored piece, WiM makes our first foray into into the topic of metamodern video games! We met author Meredith Pasahow at the 2021 Popular Culture Association annual …
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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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