Metamodern

If one were thinking up metamodern advertising angles, the tagline ‘once more with feeling’ would fit the bill. This was one of the promotional hooks that was featured on posters for Marvel Studios’ final (as of now) installment of the Guardians of the Galaxy series. The Guardians are probably the…

AI art as dreamtime and the advent of metamodern art-as-emergent-relationality — Euthanasia of the Postmodern Art Zombie I have come to maintain that the current flood of AI-generated art spells the absolute endpoint of the postmodern arts in the widest sense of that term. Postmodern art, viewed in this deep-structural and inclusive manner, i.e. as an expression of the “postmodern meta-meme” or cultural stage of development, began…

This is a very lightly edited transcription of a presentation I recently gave at the Melbourne Metamodernism Conference, February 2–3, 2023. Hello — This will be a speculative and theoretical talk about oscillation. The ideas I’m sharing are a work in progress, so I’m equally happy whether you disagree with…

The primary characteristic of people of the metamodern value meme is that they value qualitative development of human beings: that people go up in stage, that psychological development is supported and that you work to create a new society beyond the modern one. Because they have a more developmental perspective…

A society that takes inner growth and development seriously, to help more citizens realize their human potential. Development is real and it matters. Humans develop through a series of stages — albeit in a tricky, complex and often seemingly contradictory manner. But underneath the confusion is a relatively simple set…

Metamodernism is a cultural and aesthetic movement that emerged in the early 21st century as a response to the postmodernism that dominated art, literature, and culture in the late 20th century. The term was first introduced in 1975, but it gained wider recognition in the 2010s when it was adopted…

Join the discussion at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_has-the-world-changed-or-have-i-changed-activity-6993473796162637824-qUpT Many of the ideas in this post are stolen from tweets, which I now cannot find to reference Are they the best mentor in the world, or did they just give you a kind word and help your career when you started?

29 Oct. 2020 [This is a text about my experiences from starting the metamodern political party “Initiativet”/“The Initiative”. I am still an active co-creator in this movement, but today my main interest is in regenerative politics, in which I see metamodernism as a means to a goal. ] “We are…

Revolutionary Happiness is the title of an artwork I completed and minted on Teia, earlier this year. It has now become the starting point of a wider collaborative project involving artists whose work I’ve come to know, respect and value. The original work was conceived as a triptych because in…