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Jonathan Franzen on limits of pomo

WiM May 5, 2015 No Comments
Personality is socially constructed, genetically constructed, linguistically constructed, constructed by upbringing. Where the postmoderns go wrong is in positing a nullity behind all that. It’s not a nullity, it’s …
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SOMEBODY

Greg Dember April 30, 2015 No Comments
SOMEBODY
UPDATE: Sadly, the Somebody App was shut down on Oct. 31, 2015. From the app’s website:  Despite the ridiculous challenges, one in four messages were delivered, and an average …
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Powerful Women — Taylor Swift

WiM April 28, 2015 No Comments
Powerful women do not have to act masculine or cold in order to get things done. Powerful women can be huggers who name their dog Lamby and make flower …
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Conor Oberst / Bright Eyes as Metamodern Troubador

Greg Dember March 5, 2015 No Comments
Conor Oberst / Bright Eyes as Metamodern Troubador
Starting off as scraggly “bedroom rock” and known for singer Conor Oberst’s quavery but impassioned vocals, the band Bright Eyes followed an aesthetic that could mostly be called postmodern for its first …
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It’s OK

WiM February 27, 2015 No Comments
It’s OK
It truly is.
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Left Shark Nails It

Linda Ceriello February 3, 2015 No Comments
Left Shark Nails It
With headlines all over the Internet the day after Super Bowl XLIX announcing that the real MVP of the big game was Left Shark, metamodernism hit the mainstream on its biggest stage. …
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An Epistemic Taxonomy of Bicycles

Greg Dember January 29, 2015 No Comments
An Epistemic Taxonomy of Bicycles
The notion of metamodernism is embedded in a larger progression of what, borrowing from Foucault, we refer to as epistemes:  Tradition, Modern, Postmodern and, the new addition, Metamodern. We offered …
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GQ pegs Jimmy Fallon as Metamodern

Linda Ceriello October 1, 2014 No Comments
GQ pegs Jimmy Fallon as Metamodern
Jimmy Fallon has long been at the top of our list of media personalities who exemplify certain aspects of metamodernism. We were interested to discover that in March 2013, …
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Ceelo Green – FUCK YOU

Greg Dember September 13, 2014 No Comments
Ceelo Green – FUCK YOU
“Fuck You” by Ceelo Green is a “break-up anthem” that charmed the frown off the face of everyone who heard it in the Summer of 2010. We see it as an example …
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Metamodern Dumpster, Seattle

Linda Ceriello August 10, 2014 No Comments
Metamodern Dumpster, Seattle
Everything is fine.
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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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