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The Metamodernity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Greg Dember February 6, 2019 No Comments
The Metamodernity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We are generally very careful to avoid identifying individual humans as “being” metamodern. A person is far too complex to be reduced to one epistemic essence. The same goes …
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Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse: A Metamodern Negotiation of the Real

Linda Ceriello November 6, 2018 No Comments
Joss Whedon’s <em>Dollhouse:</em> A Metamodern Negotiation of the Real
We’ve written previously that Joss Whedon is one of the chief purveyors in popular culture of a metamodern sensibility, and that it may not be an exaggeration to say …
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“METAMODERN MUCH?” – Three MM Aspects in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Greg Dember October 5, 2018 No Comments
“METAMODERN MUCH?” – Three MM Aspects in <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>
Note (9-18-24): An expanded version of this post is included in Greg Dember’s book, Say Hello to Metamodernism!. It’s kind of nuts that in the five years since we …
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David Byrne, Choir! Choir! Choir!, David Bowie, “Heroes”: Metamodern?

WiM February 6, 2018 No Comments
David Byrne, Choir! Choir! Choir!, David Bowie, “Heroes”: Metamodern?
Here’s one that we want to call metamodern, and yet are challenged to explain why it is metamodern. David Byrne  is a guest participant in this Choir! Choir! Choir! performance of David Bowie’s ““Heroes”.” What Choir! Choir! Choir! does …
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Lady Bird: A Metamodern Coming-of-Age Tale

Greg Dember January 12, 2018 No Comments
<em>Lady Bird:</em> A Metamodern Coming-of-Age Tale
Note (9-18-24): An expanded version of this post is included in Greg Dember’s book, Say Hello to Metamodernism!. Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird won the 2017 Golden Globe Awards for Best …
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A Song For Tonya

WiM December 9, 2017 No Comments
A Song For Tonya
A note from Sufjan Stevens Friends, I wrote a song for Tonya Harding. It’s not at all related to the new biopic (I sent it to the music supervisors but they …
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Artocratic: Interview of Alexander and Alexandra Krolikowski –>

WiM September 27, 2017 No Comments
Artocratic: Interview of Alexander and Alexandra Krolikowski –>
In our sibling publication Artocratic’s latest interview, married Ukrainian art team, Alexander and Alexandra Krolikowski discuss metamodernism, life-as-art, post-Soviet Ukraine, eloping, their love for Wes Anderson’s films, the revival …
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Iridescence

WiM September 15, 2017 No Comments
Iridescence
From Tumblr
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Shit, Through the Ages

Greg Dember August 25, 2017 No Comments
Shit, Through the Ages
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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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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