Marcie LaCerte

A: I’m always looking for stories that: (a) are visually beautiful enough to make people want to watch for the images alone, (b) are weird enough to catch people off guard, ( c) have a strong narrative structure, and (d) open the door to a larger idea or discussion about science. This seemed to have all the elements.

…ained in Modernism’s interpretive “close readings” and/or postmodernism’s deconstructive critiques. In this way, metamodernism offers us new avenues for making meaning, reading meaning, and even discussing possible solutions to old problems.

… Infinite Jest provoked anger or confusion among many simply by refusing to be readily categorized; in a world in which our inclination is to deconstruct everything into a series of neatly opposing principles, metamodern artifacts continue to thwart our sense that data can be so quickly and easily processed. Likewise, metamodern dialogues and collaborations tend to cross so many lines of affiliation, inter…