What Is Metamodern?

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“Eternal Employment” — brainchild of Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, is set to take place inside a Gothenburg train station, with the backing of the Swedish Transport Administration. “Whatever the employee chooses to do constitutes the work,” reads the artists’ proposal. “What Eternal Employment proposes … is an anti-performance of indefinite duration. A single person with no script, no climax, no crescendo. Forever.” The project is being explored “as an act of economic imagination” according to this article in Atlas Obscura. “While [the artists] don’t see this kind of undefined job as a vision of the future, they imagine a ‘point of reference for the future.’ ”

A kind of #metamodern mantra spotted on magazine cover: Be messy, complicated and afraid, and show up anyway. #metamodernism #mantramagazine #showup #sbnr (at Winston-Salem, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxzUVyAKwW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tvotnzeytdss

We’ve written previously that Joss Whedon is one of the chief purveyors in popular culture of a metamodern sensibility, and that it may not be an exaggeration to say that his seminal television creation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, launched aspects of what we now identify as the metamodern cultural sentiment, or at least is partly responsible for its dissemination throughout pop culture. So we figured, why not follow our recent blog post on Buffy with another Whedon creation that included a certain aspect of Buffy’s metamodernism – the television show, Dollhouse (2009-2010). One overarching theme that Dollhouse shares with Buffy is that identity is very plastic. People may or may not be quite what they seem, and... Continue Reading...

It’s kind of nuts that in the five years since we started blogging on metamodernism, we haven’t yet written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a seminal metamodern cultural product. Especially since, we might argue, Buffy is one of the television shows perhaps most influential... Continue reading

~Buffy and Kendra as Metamodern Heroes~ From essay by WiM editor Linda Ceriello “The Big Bad and the ‘Big AHA!’ Metamodern Monsters as Transformational Figures of Instability” in Michael Heyes, ed. Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques (Lexington 2018) . . . #metamodernism #metamodernmonsters #metamodernheroes #Buffy #BTVS #Slayers # (at Sunnydale) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnLEpTDhJi0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p8i4zb9jqjws

So, we’ve been kind of quiet here for a few months as we’ve been migrating our main What is Metamodern? site to a new Wordpress platform. We will keep this site as well, using it more like a typical Tumblr—with reblogs of metamodern-y posts we come across, our short writings, and links to new articles as we publish them on the main site. For more metamodern material, you can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and Medium. And the URL for the new site is: https://whatismetamodern.com

Eleven Methods: 1) Meta-reflexivity (“Life as Movie”) 2) The narrative double frame (Eshelman’s Performatism) 3) Oscillation between opposites 4) Quirky 5) Minimalism / Tiny 6) Maximalism / Epic 7) Constructive Pastiche 8) Ironesty 9) Normcore 10) Overprojection (Anthropomorphizing) 11) Meta-Cute

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Posted Aug 25th, 2017