Contemporary movements

Metamodernism

Contemporary cultural, artistic, and political movement that has recently emerged. Firstly, I want to give you a cohersive exsplaination of what Metamodernism is. This is also a field I have started to learn about so ill update this as i go

Some background on Metamodernism:

OBS! Be aware that I am giving a very shallow expslaination of huge paradaigms in humanity: Were talking about how human conciousnes was like before!

Metamodernism is a response to modernism and postmodernism and integrates aspects of both together:
Modernism (late 18th-19th century) : Movement within culture and arts that emphasized exsperimentation, abstraction(im thinking about the wierd colorful shapes of art people ridicule), subejctive exsperience, stream-of-conciousnes, breaking away from traditional forms. Intertwined with the industrial revolutions spread of its wings and the secularization of society.
Postmodernism (mid-20th century to PRESENT?) : A historical period and reactionary artistic movement that crittiqued modernism for being too "self absorbed" with trying to be unique, so postmodernism mixes all differnet kinds of styles- they combine new and old, is suspicious torwards reason (remember modernism came after enlightement), and a huge sensitivity torwards ideology (Search the culture industry), no such thing as truth. Postmodernism is marked by the rise of tech, surveillance, rise of postcolonialism, the new mix of cultures. Some people claim postmodernism is dead. - Irony : Irony means to say something but to mean the opposite or a form of exaggeration or understatement. Irony here can bleed into Cynicism

Deadpool This character is postmodern because he breaks the traditional fourth wall (deadpools meta-humor), also the juxstapositions of violence and playfullness/humor. Hes an anti-hero "im no hero", but he has a strong heart.

Deconstruction Havent you also seen movies where the so-called "pure" and good superhero character is teared apart to show its flaws and how undrealistic it is? Im thinking of lego batman here. Or what about nice stories or songs with some grueling twist? Deconstruction, is a huge part of postmodernism. There is no objective fact, no pure good, and there is no pure evil. It seeks to strip away substance of everyhting and it forces you into this cynic belief that "nohting really matters, nothing is knowable", but what strikes me as the worst part of this is that ppl are pushed into a beleif where they think that everyone is selfish. . Postmodernism is fragmentary, and atomistic, it separates people from eachother.

Metamodernism:Tries to build up what the cynics from the postmodern took down. It also is a response to the limitations of both modernism and postmodernism. I imagine metamodernism respons to postmodernisms cynicism and hopelessnes of the word with; "Yeah? what if the world is going under it will if you countinue to fucking whine about it, asshole. I dont care, we will try to reach for the stars anyway." Sincerity!. Political-wise its about creating a "listening society"1: A society that invests in listening to the psychological needs of its population and focuses on making the population aware. Evolving the welfare state to also tend to psychological needs. The authours of the metamodernistic book "the listening society" has their eyes on the Nordic countries as purveyors of this because of their developed welfare states.