Spotlights, 3.19, Reflections on Metamodernism

This week’s episode of Spotlights focuses on metamodernism—an emerging cultural movement that recovers sincerity and big picture thinking following the postmodern focus on irony and skepticism. Our host Sam Mickey provides some context for thinking about metamodernism, especially as it relates to postmodernism. He notes how postmodern theory already includes metamodern ideas in several ways, both in constructive postmodernism (e.g., Alfred North Whitehead) and deconstructive postmodernism (e.g., Jacques Derrida). While there is much to praise about metamodernism, it is important not to perpetuate confused misreadings of postmodernism. Furthermore, it is important to continue attending to the postcolonial and postindustrial conditions that postmodern theory addresses.

[kevinrombouts]

I truly value your thoughts. It is helping me to have a broader and more balanced perspective and a more open mind. I have had a mainly negative view of postmodernism. I've never heard of its constructive side.

[Michael-ntme]

Up through the ...Agricultural, Industrial, Spatial, and Virtual.... Ages into a Universal Planetary Metaverse (TM) harnessing an integrally greater ...Ecology, Economics, and Engineering....

..Capitalism, Corporatism, and Cumulativism....


sincerely
...Creative, Constructive, and Collaborative.... aspects along with Destructive and Deconstrictive aspects coming forth and going forward.

[deyanirasaez]

Irony is constitutive of humanity (to think otherwise would be like believing in "the invention of lies"), different currents have made use of it. Postmodernism is the basis of the current cultural war, which is "bleeding" the human soul (nihilism, cynicism) and the social fabric. Does anyone believe that the cultural battle is going to be won by one of the sides? It should never have happened, with the cultural war we all lose, that is why postmodernism is a mistake of the West, which with such a philosophy is killing itself itself, giving the "moral" opportunity for Orientalism to triumph, also doing so economically and ultimately culturally (there are "suspicions" for the Hebrew religions, but not for the Eastern ones, simply more spiritual and practical and some of them without gods).