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 …
It truly is.
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. …
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 …
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, …
“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 …
Everything is fine.
Is Normcore another term for Metamodern? Not quite. Although it may be argued that Normcore grew out of metamodern soil. At the moment, the Wikipedia article on Normcore portrays it as strictly …
The term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” was invented by critic Nathan Rabin, writing in 2007 for the web site The A.V. Club in order to explain his disappointment with …
If you are a human being who spends time on the Internet, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this May 2012 video documenting Isaac’s marriage proposal to his now-wife …
