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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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Stranger Things Acceptance Speech – Hunting Monsters!

WiM January 30, 2017 No Comments
Just another quick “metamodernism in politics” post. We want to make it clear that we do not see progressive political stances as inherently metamodern. (Nor, of course, do we see conservative …
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SUFJAN STEVENS

Greg Dember January 24, 2017 No Comments
We regard Sufjan Stevens as one of the poster children for metamodernism, and no discussion of metamodernism in popular music is complete without taking a look at his work. Notable for weaving …
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When Have All the Flowers Gone?

WiM January 17, 2017 No Comments
Source: Krolikowski Art
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Learning To Fly

WiM January 13, 2017 No Comments
Source: Krolikowski Art
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Empty Boot

WiM January 10, 2017 No Comments
Click to see closeup of the installation.
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Metamodern Architecture?

WiM January 9, 2017 No Comments
Click to see several more wacky buildings!
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We’re Still In Your Fan Club, David Bowie. (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016)

WiM January 9, 2017 No Comments
Click to see more!
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Coffee Shops and Sunsets

WiM January 5, 2017 No Comments
You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people …
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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.

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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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