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BROCKHAMPTON – Metamodern Hip-Hop Boy Band

Greg Dember September 14, 2020 No Comments
BROCKHAMPTON – Metamodern Hip-Hop Boy Band
BROCKHAMPTON is a U.S. hip-hop collective that breaks a number of norms. For example, they prefer to be called a "boy band" --because they want to redefine what boy …
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“Is there someone in your life that made you feel like your sh*t wasn’t cute?”

WiM August 26, 2020 No Comments
“Is there someone in your life that made you feel like your sh*t wasn’t cute?”
A WiM reader* turned us on to “Cute House”– an episode of The Dress Up Gang, which is a show on the cable channel TBS, and that’s about all …
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“Brand Twitter” Begets Metamodern Meat?

Katie Elson Anderson June 13, 2020 No Comments
“Brand Twitter” Begets Metamodern Meat?
In an age of fake news and “fake news,” it may or may not come as any surprise that a voice of honesty and empathy has emerged from the …
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Metamodern Pandemic Late Night: Fallon from the Basement

WiM April 13, 2020 No Comments
Metamodern Pandemic Late Night: Fallon from the Basement
A Metamodernism Sighting: Jimmy Fallon in the Basement! During this COVID-19 pandemic and social-distancing lockdown, television and film production has ground to a halt, understandably. Plenty of series and …
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Metamodernism Renovates: The Brady House and a Faux Green Day Album

Greg Dember February 22, 2020 No Comments
Metamodernism Renovates: The Brady House and a Faux Green Day Album
I’ve been wanting to write about A Very Brady Renovation (a 7-episode show available on HGTV and Hulu) for a while now, but could not come up with a …
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Metamodern Wisdom via Mr. Robot

WiM December 25, 2019 No Comments
Metamodern Wisdom via Mr. Robot
This whole time I thought changing the world was something you did.An act you performed, something you fought for.I don’t know if that’s true anymore. What if changing the …
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Fleabag as Metamodern Dramedy

Nathaniel Wullf October 18, 2019 No Comments
<em>Fleabag</em> as Metamodern Dramedy
Fleabag, a two season Emmy Award-winning series for Amazon and BBC3, created by, written by, and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, follows the often destructive attempts to cope with life by …
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Report From the Field: Depthiness at the Seattle Art Fair

Greg Dember September 8, 2019 No Comments
Report From the Field: Depthiness at the Seattle Art Fair
Recently I volunteered at the Seattle Art Fair, an annual event that brings together hundreds of galleries and artists to display their work in a sprawling conference area inhabiting …
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Punk Rock for Sissies

Greg Dember September 1, 2019 No Comments
Punk Rock for Sissies
I recently gave a talk “Punk Rock for Sissies: The Return of Affect in Early 21st Century American Indie Rock” at the AHRC Metamodernism conference at Radboud University in …
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A job that gives total control to the worker, with no job description and no duties…

WiM March 6, 2019 No Comments
A job that gives total control to the worker, with no job description and no duties…
“Eternal Employment” — brainchild of Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, is set to take place inside a Gothenburg train station, with the backing of the Swedish Transport …
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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.

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