I have a buddy that talks a lot about metamodernism and I have really struggled to understand it. I have read many articles and watched many videos and still don’t really have a strong sense of what the hell it is!
Postmodernism and all previous philosophical movements/orientations make sense to me but I can’t wrap my head around this. I’ve searched on this subreddit and wasn’t satisfied with any of the explanations. Perhaps someone can provide an explanation and perhaps a piece of film/video that represents it?
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From reading the Wikipedia page, I’d describe it as a combination of the optimism of modernism with the cynicism of postmodernism. Not expecting old cliches to hold true while not entirely dismissing them either.
Meta usually has to do with being self-aware and self-referential. My guess is that metamodernism would be like post-post-modernism. I don’t know though. We should actually both just google it.
Asked a painter I play table top games with.
She described it as “artist looking to re-integrate traditional standards for measurement of mastery from modernity back to the art domain use that term.”
There was a long rant about how post modernism’s reach has made the general public disregard art. She seems to think its a term for artist who want a label that separates them from the other “artist” who tape bananas to walls and sell it for 120k.
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