Metamodernity is a cultural paradigm and discourse that emerged after postmodernism and is characterized by a synthesis of modernism and postmodernism. It's a cultural phase that's evident in art, theater, music, film, literature, and architecture.
Metamodernism is a way of articulating the developments in contemporary culture, which some argue has moved beyond the postmodern mode of the late 20th century. It's characterized by an oscillation between seemingly opposed concepts, such as modern idealism and postmodern skepticism, or modern sincerity and postmodern irony. Metamodernism is also characterized by an ironic sincerity that acknowledges the cynicism of postmodernism, while also revealing an earnestness.
The term "metamodernism" was popularized by cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker through their scholarly web journal, Notes on Metamodernism, which was started in 2009.
One example of a metamodern film is Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
*it also reminds us that: Generative AI is experimental.
Common question on the Google 12/5/24:
In short, metamodern Christianity builds upon previous paradigms—premodern, modern, and postmodern—while introducing fresh insights and perspectives. It has roots and wings.(emphasis M.T. Baran)
-An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age
by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Image source: https://nesslabs.com/metamodernism
Quote pulled from LeCunff article:
“Metamodernism oscillates between a modern enthusiasm and a postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naiveté and knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, purity and ambiguity.”
Timotheus Vermeulen, Cultural Theorist.
1) Empathic Reflexivity* (“Life as Movie”)
2) The Narrative Double Frame (Eshelman’s Performatism)
3) Oscillation Between Opposites
4) Quirky
5) The Tiny (metamodern minimalism)
6) The Epic (metamodern maximalism)
7) Constructive Pastiche
8) Ironesty
9) Normcore
10) Overprojection (Anthropomorphizing)
11) Meta-Cute
• Modernism (circa 1900ish to 1950-ish)
• Postmodernism (1950-ish to 2000-ish)
• Metamodernism (largely beginning in the late 1990s and continuing in the present)