Everything Metamodern All at Once
June 27, 2022 No Comments
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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April 1, 2022 No Comments
In Defense of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up: A Metamodern Reading
January 29, 2022 No Comments
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. …
Little Inferno: An Indie Game Full of Metamodern Surprises
November 10, 2021 No Comments
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 …
Talking Metamodernism with Tim Vermeulen
October 26, 2021 No Comments
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 …
Metamodern transmedia artist Donald Glover/Childish Gambino with Cam Ostrander
September 16, 2021 No Comments
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 …
“You’re Like Me” – A Metamodern Reading of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
August 18, 2021 No Comments
My favorite film of 2019—nay, my favorite superhero film of all time, is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The protagonist is Miles Morales (voiced here by Shameik Moore), the newest …
“Not normal” – the Tokyo Olympics Normalized Metamodern Aesthetics and Sensibilities
August 11, 2021 No Comments
After seeing the staging of the most metamodern US presidential inauguration ever back in January, we shouldn’t be too surprised that this year we would witness the most metamodern …
“Should I Be Joking in a Time Like This?”: Bo Burnham’s INSIDE as a Metamodern Response to Crisis
August 2, 2021 No Comments
Our guest writer, Tom Drayton, is a Senior Lecturer in Acting, Performance and Directing at The University of East London, UK. His research concerns international activist theatre and the …
Metamodernism in Television: BoJack Horseman and Flawed Heroes, with Arielle Bernstein (WiM Conversations)
July 8, 2021 No Comments
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 …