“Fuck You” by Ceelo Green is a “break-up anthem” that charmed the frown off the face of everyone who heard it in the Summer of 2010. We see it as an example …
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Is Normcore another term for Metamodern? Not quite. Although it may be argued that Normcore grew out of metamodern soil. At the moment, the Wikipedia article on Normcore portrays it as strictly …
The term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” was invented by critic Nathan Rabin, writing in 2007 for the web site The A.V. Club in order to explain his disappointment with …
If you are a human being who spends time on the Internet, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this May 2012 video documenting Isaac’s marriage proposal to his now-wife …
Of the several strains of metamodernist sentiment there are to talk about, one that we’ve featured heavily in our blog posts here expresses itself as the desire to reclaim sentiment and …
A Personal Post by Greg Dember On Facebook, a Christian friend of mine made a post about her Macbook dying at an especially crappy time, and she asked people …
Astronauts (like everything related to Outer Space) are already metamodern, because they evoke a sense of unvarnished possibility that has survived postmodernism’s cynicism about technology, heroes, and major undertakings. David Bowie’s …
Lars and the Real Girl, a film released in 2007, is about a young man with an at first unspecified “specialness,” possibly a mental disability, who takes a mail-ordered …
Historically, the word “awesome” has enjoyed a meaning as complex as a good French Burgundy. In the 17th century, it was a word with the important role of conveying …