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La La Land’s Layered Metamodernism

Greg Dember January 3, 2017 No Comments
La La Land, the recently released film starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Damien Chazelle, does not submit complacently to categorization, but we feel it can be at least …
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Wes Anderson Film Color Palette

WiM December 6, 2016 No Comments
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In the End

WiM December 5, 2016 No Comments
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Seattle’s THE STRANGER turns 25 years old.

Linda Ceriello December 2, 2016 No Comments
We WiM editors feel fortunate to live in Seattle for many reasons, not least of which is our city being the home of alt weekly newspaper, The Stranger, which recently published its 25th Anniversary Issue. In …
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Metamodernism in the Workplace?

WiM November 17, 2016 No Comments
“To an extent that we ourselves are only beginning to appreciate, most people at work, even in high-performing organizations, divert considerable energy every day to a second job that …
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Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton Sings ‘Hallelujah’ on Saturday Night Live

WiM November 13, 2016 No Comments
We thought we weren’t going to make any more election-related posts, but here’s one more. So, for two years, Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon has comically portrayed Hillary Clinton, in parallel to the …
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It’s Time to Art the Shit Out Of This.

Greg Dember November 9, 2016 No Comments
I honestly went to sleep last night clinging to the hope that Clinton would pull it together in PA, MI, WI, and NH somehow.  I felt that if I …
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Isaim Lozano

WiM October 23, 2016 No Comments
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The Ken Bone Phenomenon as Metamodern AWEsome!

WiM October 19, 2016 No Comments
Metamodernism showed its face in the political sphere again, when Ken Bone, one of the “undecided voters” who sat on stage with the candidates at the second presidential debate, became an …
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Everybody Has a Secret World Inside of Them — Neil Gaiman

WiM July 28, 2016 No Comments
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring …
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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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