Everything Is Awesome
June 9, 2015 No Comments
Jonathan Franzen on limits of pomo
May 5, 2015 No Comments
Personality is socially constructed, genetically constructed, linguistically constructed, constructed by upbringing. Where the postmoderns go wrong is in positing a nullity behind all that. It’s not a nullity, it’s …
SOMEBODY
April 30, 2015 No Comments
UPDATE: Sadly, the Somebody App was shut down on Oct. 31, 2015. From the app’s website: Despite the ridiculous challenges, one in four messages were delivered, and an average …
Powerful Women — Taylor Swift
April 28, 2015 No Comments
Powerful women do not have to act masculine or cold in order to get things done. Powerful women can be huggers who name their dog Lamby and make flower …
Conor Oberst / Bright Eyes as Metamodern Troubador
March 5, 2015 No Comments
Starting off as scraggly “bedroom rock” and known for singer Conor Oberst’s quavery but impassioned vocals, the band Bright Eyes followed an aesthetic that could mostly be called postmodern for its first …
It’s OK
February 27, 2015 No Comments
It truly is.
Left Shark Nails It
February 3, 2015 No Comments
With headlines all over the Internet the day after Super Bowl XLIX announcing that the real MVP of the big game was Left Shark, metamodernism hit the mainstream on its biggest stage. …
An Epistemic Taxonomy of Bicycles
January 29, 2015 No Comments
The notion of metamodernism is embedded in a larger progression of what, borrowing from Foucault, we refer to as epistemes: Tradition, Modern, Postmodern and, the new addition, Metamodern. We offered …
GQ pegs Jimmy Fallon as Metamodern
October 1, 2014 No Comments
Jimmy Fallon has long been at the top of our list of media personalities who exemplify certain aspects of metamodernism. We were interested to discover that in March 2013, …
Ceelo Green – FUCK YOU
September 13, 2014 No Comments
“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 …