![]() ![]() We were also noticing subtle shifts in certain uses of vernacular and humor on the streets and in our local haunts and coffee shops – It all seemed interrelated. From our perch in Seattle, we could sense that something different was happening in the music and films and literature we encountered. The editors of WiM first began puzzling over this cultural shift in the early-2000s. Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, 2010 Indeed, by oscillating to and fro or back and forth, the metamodern negotiates between the modern and the postmodern. ![]() oscillates between a modern enthusiasm and a postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naïveté and knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, purity and ambiguity. allows for individuals to (re)claim ownership of a breadth of human vicissitudes experientially felt to be real, and more so when they stand messily entangled rather than tidily sorted out. The central motivation of metamodernism is to protect interior, subjective felt experience from the ironic distance of postmodernism, the scientific reductionism of modernism, and the pre-personal inertia of tradition. ![]() About This Website (and about metamodernism) ![]()
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