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Shit, Through the Ages

Greg Dember August 25, 2017 No Comments
An Epistemic Taxonomy of Knowing and Shit
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“Metamodernism is not a program…”

WiM August 2, 2017 No Comments
Excerpt of interview of Timotheus Vermeulen about Metamodernism from Tank Magazine: Cher Potter: You and Robin never took to the idea of a manifesto. However, the artist Luke Turner has …
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Why Beasts of the Southern Wild is Metamodern

Greg Dember July 24, 2017 No Comments
Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlinand Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben Zeitlin), came out of nowhere and was nominated in several categories in the 2012 Academy Awards, including the youngest-ever …
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End of an Era?

WiM July 16, 2017 No Comments
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. — Arthur Miller
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Accidental Wes Anderson

WiM July 6, 2017 No Comments
These buildings and scenes, collected in a Reddit group called “Accidental Wes Anderson” see the filmmaker’s aesthetic at play in all of them. They can be seen as embodying metamodern qualities: Unabashedly …
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SNL Metamodern Hallelujah, Part Two

Linda Ceriello May 22, 2017 No Comments
Right after the 2016 USA Presidential Election, we commented on the metamodernity of Saturday Night Live’s sketch where Hillary Clinton, as portrayed by Kate McKinnon, sat at the piano and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in …
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Weee

WiM May 4, 2017 No Comments
We love Liz Climo’s metamodern comics! From Tumblr
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How to be Ironic and Earnest, with J.P. Sears (”Ironesty”)

Greg Dember April 24, 2017 No Comments
How can somebody deliver constructive spiritual- and personal-growth advice without risking coming across as a cheeseball in today’s often cynical world? We think Internet personality J.P. Sears pulls this off by …
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“Awesome” in NYT Headline

WiM March 14, 2017 No Comments
As we’ve discussed, “That’s Awesome!” is one of our favorite metamodern expressions. Not “awesome” as in the over-used saccharine-hype 1980s usage of the word, but the updated 2000s usage that people use to remark …
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Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer’s “Happy Street”

WiM March 10, 2017 No Comments
If this song were made by anyone besides Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, it might be too corny to be metamodern, but it is by Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, so… we’re feeling obliged to …
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What Is Metamodern?

We’re 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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This blog is an offshoot of the arts and culture web-magazine, Artocratic, edited by Greg Dember and Linda Ceriello.
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