Metamodernism

Summary

Metamodernism is a cultural and philosophical framework characterized by oscillation between irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth. In the VeltBuch, it is most closely associated with the work of Eli Mercer.

Detail

As defined in Mercer's MetaModern Manifesto (drawing on Luke Turner, Vermeulen, and van den Akker), metamodernism is the "mercurial condition between and beyond" traditional modern and postmodern stances. It seeks a "pragmatic romanticism" and the "oscillation" between opposing poles.

For Eli Mercer, it represents the "permission to mean something again while knowing exactly how meaning fails. Sincerity with its fingers crossed, but crossed in public."

Related Songs

• Mercer's MetaModern Manifesto
• Muscular MetaModernist
• This is Not a Fish
• The Message (is the Medium)