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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …