#metamodern

[midi8]

I’m a maan from the book, she said. I said okay, let me do the book.

#literature #modern #metamodern #postmodern

[songsforsquid]

Seattle Metamodernism Summit

I’ll be taking part in a reading/performance and panel at the Seattle Metamodernism Summit on September 10th, 2022 (live and online). Is my poetry “metamodernist”? How does my creative process, as well as that of other poets and songwriters, connect to the ideas of irony, sincerity, or even perhaps “ironesty”? That’s some of what we’ll be exploring in this panel conversation between artists, academics, and artist-academics. Come for the performances, stay for the heady ideas! 

SEATTLE METAMODERNISM SUMMIT: Conversations on the Arts in an Age of Ironesty! 

Dates: September 10: Live & Online;  September 11: Online Only

​Live Location (Sept 10): Ballard Homestead, 6541 Jones Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117, USA

Tickets: Options to watch online or attend in person; also an option to just attend the Songwriters and Poets Panel. 

SONGWRITERS & POETS PANEL: Sept. 10th (5:00pm-6:30pm PST) Songwriters John Van Deusen (The Lonely Forest), Costello (Pretty Broken Things) and Greg Dember and poets Sierra Nelson, Antony Rowland and Scott Thurston and will perform songs and poems in the round while engaging in a curated discussion about how metamodern tropes factor into their creative work and their lives – how they 'respond' musically/poetically to e.g. dualities such as: irony/earnestness, skepticism/belief, fragmentation/unity. 

More Info & Full Schedule: https://www.seattlemetamodernismsummit.com/ 

About the Seattle Metamodernism Summit:

What’s “metamodernism” and what do metamodern art and literature look like, sound like, feel like? Why are individuals and artists—even marketing and branding agents—increasingly drawn to it? Metamodernism is a name given to a sensibility emerging in the recent decades that grapples with our irony-soaked, context-dependent, everything-is-uncertain times by simultaneously embracing postmodern uncertainty and a sense of earnestness, even hope and commitment.  How exactly does the current moment inspire artists of all sorts to create in a different, what some call metamodern, register? The Seattle Metamodernism Summit is a public-friendly event taking place Sept 10-11. Part symposium and part performance, with time for discussion built in, researchers in metamodern arts, TV and film, architecture, literature, video games, marketing and more are coming together, presenting their ideas to each other and the general public at the Ballard Homestead on Saturday September 10. A live poet and songwriter panel includes locals Sierra Nelson, John Van Deusen (The Lonely Forest), Costello (Pretty Broken Things) and others. The public may attend the Summit in person or online (Zoom) on Sept 10th. The event continues in online only format on Sept 11th. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit our website at SeattleMetamodernismSummit.com.

Event sponsored by AHRC Metamodernism Research Network, What is Metamodern? and Abbey Arts.

#Seattle Metamodernism Summit #metamodernism #sierra nelson #greg dember #costello #john van deusen #antony rowland #scott thurston #metamodern #poetry #songwriting #seattle #academic #artist #conference #SMMS22 #the lonely forest #pretty broken things

[jareckiworld]

Sanae Takahata — Personal Object "Protect Life" (antique parts and glass beads, mixed media, 2015)

#Sanae Takahata #japanese art #metamodernism #allegorical art

[weaselandfriends]

Post-postmodernism in Pop Culture: Homestuck’s Revenge

I recently saw an excellent video essay titled Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now? by Thomas Flight. Though the title is opaque clickbait, the video is actually about major artistic zeitgeists, or movements, in film history. Flight describes three major movements:

Modernism, encompassing much of classic cinema, in which an earnest belief in universal truths led to straightforward narratives that unironically supported certain values (rationalism, civic duty, democracy, etc.)

Postmodernism, in which disillusionment with the values of modernism led to films that played with cinematic structure, metafiction, and the core language of film, often with more unclear narratives that lacked straightforward resolutions, and that were skeptical or even suspicious of the idea of universal truth 

Metamodernism, the current artistic zeitgeist, which takes the structural and metafictional innovations of postmodernism but uses them not to reject meaning, but point to some new kind of meaning or sincerity.

Flight associates metamodernism with the “multiverse” narratives that are popular in contemporary film, both in blockbuster superhero films and Oscar darlings like Everything Everywhere All at Once. He argues that the multiverse conceptually represents a fragmented, metafictional lack of universal truth, but that lack of truth is then subverted with a narrative that ultimately reaffirms universal truth. In short, rather than rejecting postmodernism entirely, metamodernism takes the fragmented rubble of its technique and themes and builds something new out of that fragmentation.

Longtime readers of this blog may find some of these concepts familiar. Indeed, I was talking about them many years ago in my Hymnstoke posts, even using the terms “modernism” and “postmodernism,” though what Flight calls metamodernism I tended to call “post-postmodernism” (another term used for it is New Sincerity). Years before EEAAO, years before Spider-verse, years before the current zeitgeist in pop cultural film and television, there was an avant garde work pioneering all the techniques and themes of metamodernism. A work that took the structural techniques of postmodernism--the ironic detachment, the temporal desynchronization, the metafiction--and used them not to posit a fundamental lack of universal truth but rather imbue a chaotic, maximalist world of cultural detritus with new meaning, new truth, new sincerity. That work was:

Homestuck.

That’s right! Everyone’s favorite web comic. Of course, I’m not the first person to realize the thematic and structural similarities between Homestuck and the current popular trend in film. Just take a look at this tweet someone made yesterday:

This tweet did some numbers.

As you might expect if you’re at all aware of the current cultural feeling toward Homestuck, many of the replies and quotes are incredibly vitriolic over this comparison. Here’s one of my favorites:

It’s actually quite striking how many elements of the new Spider-verse are similar to Homestuck; aspects of doomed timelines, a multiversal network that seems to demand certain structure, and even “mandatory death of parental figure as an impetus for mandated personal growth” are repeated across both works. The recycling and revitalization of ancient, seemingly useless cultural artifacts (in Homestuck’s case, films like Con Air; in Spider-verse, irrelevant gimmick Spider-men from spinoffs past) are also common thematic threads.

As this new post-postmodern or metamodern trend becomes increasingly mainstream, and as time heals all and allows people to look back at Homestuck with more objectivity, I believe there will one day be a rehabilitation of Homestuck’s image. It’ll be seen as an important and influential work, with a place inside the cultural canon. Perhaps, like Infinite Jest, it’ll continue to have some subset of commentators who cannot get past their perception of the people who read the work rather than the work itself even thirty years after its publication, but eventually it’ll be recognized for innovations that precipitated a change in the way people think about stories and their meaning.

Until that day, enjoy eating raw sewage directly from a sewer pipe.

(Side note: I think Umineko no naku koro ni, which was published around the same time as Homestuck and which deals with many similar themes and then-novel ideas, will also one day receive recognition as a masterpiece. Check it out if you haven’t already!)

#homestuck #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #metamodernism #post-postmodernism #pop culture

[michaelgarfield]

Construction on the sacred aquarium is proceeding nicely. Thinking about when I want to involve people in helping me direct the @midjourney breeding process and steering the discovery of new coordinates in the space of all possible renders from this one juicy prompt... 🐠🕍📚 #newcontemporaryart #surrealism #hypermodern #metamodern #ai #speculativefiction #mysticism #oracle #blackfeathers #numinous #atlantis #ancientfuture (at Santa Fe, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXYaEYvAKU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#newcontemporaryart #surrealism #hypermodern #metamodern #ai #speculativefiction #mysticism #oracle #blackfeathers #numinous #atlantis #ancientfuture

[morbidaughter]

Julia Soboleva (Latvian, born 1990)

#julia soboleva #neosurrealism #metamodernism #surrealist art #surrealism #latvian art #dark surrealism #contemporary art

[raptureburgers]

Hey everybody! In case you hadn't heard, the all new manga version of Rapture Burgers Volume One is available on Amazon and our direct site! We also have stickers and posters available!

This version of the story is a complete retelling, and was drawn by a team of professional Japanese manga artists and assistants! The level of detail and quality are top notch, and we're extremely proud of their hard work.

The book comes in your choice of softcover or deluxe hardcover, which comes with an exclusive art gallery, larger format, and a very fancy dust jacket!

Digital versions are also available on the Rapture Productions website, but the physical versions are such high quality that we think it's worth the extra cost! Every purchase comes with a sticker sheet and special thank-you card.

#rapture burgers #indie manga #manga #comics #indie comics #bipoc author #bipoc creatives #metamodernism

[qweenofurheart]

i redrew that one shot from saltburn with my ocs winghead and adam.

adam is loud and imposing and wants to go to art school and winghead is more like the quiet and polite jock. adam sort of clings onto winghead bc he’s the only other “cursed” at their hs (hence the wings and antennae on their heads) and winghead is annoyed but complacent to his company.

#more oc propaganda #i’ll go back to fanart i swear… just let me have this!!! #i didnt watch the film. #i read the screenplay though! #i have something against new movies. #i like metamodernity! like with eeaao and the souvenir and even taste of cherry (tho that isnt recent) #but most other recent movies like poor things or priscilla or saltburn really fall flat to me? they feel very 'ostentatious' for the sake o #being gauche and shocking rather than to convey feeling. i think that's sort of a modern instinct. to have 'absurd' be the default setting #of the world #anyways… i thought this one shot was pretty. #my art #my ocs #winghead #adam cao #you ate my heart

[springsilverino]

business or pleasure?

#my art #furry #metamodernism #anthro #furry art

[thejaymaniac]

Finally been watching JJK because I miss being part of pseudo-mainstream fandom discussions and honestly I'm really enjoying it. Is it an urban fantasy style Naruto clone? Absolutely, but the pacing and humor and emotional catharsis is all handled pretty well so far, I have a soft spot for insanely complicated sociological magic systems, and it's very clever about being a Standard Shonen Anime.

For example: I really love how the show justifies/pokes fun at the 'overused S-class' trope by making it a result of the sorcerer establishment rather than shitty writing. Yeah, we're dealing with at least three special-grade artifacts, curses or sorcerers every single episode, but that's because these assholes refuse to update their categorization system to something more useful and descriptive. So when you hear 'special-grade' and can't tell what that actually means in this case, the characters are getting the same experience!

It's something Gojo points out specifically and explicitly in episode 8 or so, but Sukuna actually makes fun of it even before then when he tells the s-grade curse 'hey, we're both special grade, I guess that means we're the same, right?' before effortlessly curbstomping it into oblivion.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #power system #power scaling #magic systems #the ridiculous overcomplicated magic system is metamodernism at its finest

[13eyond13]

Is Death Note considered post-modern media

#genuinely asking bc i just watched a YouTube thingy about modern and post modern and then wtv comes next #metamodern or sthg? #but anyhoo it was basically saying modern stories were like kinda classic straight forward traditional values good guy wins bad guy loses #then post modern was kinda like #but WAIT what if there are no heroes or villains cynical sort of questioning or reversing the usual values and tropes and morals #and then the essay went on to say the next thingy is like. post modern but also trying to add a second more hopeful twist #after all the nihilistic deconstruction #??? #DN def seems like the second category but idk #i went to art school and feel like i still don't know shit about this kinda stuff btw like it always went in one ear and out the other #the youtube video i watched was called Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now? #by thomas flight btw #p

[pumpkinmanjack]

Metamodernity.

#vansire #vansire the band #metamodernity #monument alley #utah

[lawfulgoodness]

Experimental campaign idea

I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain my next campaign setting/idea in a brief, sensible way.  It’s really silly, but also really ambitious, and we’re about to have the second session, which means I really need to get a firmer grasp on all the moving parts.  To that end, here are the 3 main things I’m doing with it:

Self-insert PCs - All Player Characters are self-insert, so everybody’s just literally themselves.

Reality is a simulation - The players are “pulled out” of our world, and “plugged into” another one.  They are thrown back and forth with little explanation, hopefully motivating them to investigate why.

A Multiverse of RPGs -  Initially the world they are thrown into will be Shadowrun, since it already has an understanding of “jacking into the matrix.”  However, the goal is for them to try and find a way to escape from the world of Shadowrun, only to find themselves trapped in the world of Earthdawn instead.  The levels of reality are nested, so escaping one simulation leads them to discover what they thought was “reality” is in fact another simulation.

It’s basically “Sliders” meets “eXistenZ”

If you’re interested in the currently planned nesting realities, click the “Read More”:

World 0x0800:  Fake Shadowrun, but a very glitchy VR video game, simulating the world of Shadowrun.  It is so glitchy, that the players are able to exploit it in a way that creates a rift in the underlying simulation of all worlds, allowing them to begin traveling between worlds.  

World 0x0700: Real The world of Shadowrun.  The players were hired to pull a series of jobs in a popular video game, but after the first few jobs, the world of Shadowrun started to demonstrate weird glitches just like the video game.  Players try to escape to get back to their “real lives.”

World 0x0600: Spawn point.  No system/setting.  This is the world players initially find themselves in when the campaign starts.  It is clear that 0x0800 isn’t real, it is also implied that 0x0700 may not be real.  All but one player is currently assuming that 0x0600 is probably “real.”

World 0x0500: Earthdawn  After finally realizing 0x0600 is not real, the players escape and find themselves in Earthdawn.  In the world of Earthdawn, the players are welcomed as rescued heroes that had been trapped by the Horrors of Barsaive.  They are finally awake, and all of their previous adventures are considered nightmares, but not real.  Other nightmares and astral adventures will occur from here, throwing the adventurers into 0x0610 (d&d), 0x0620 (pathfinder), and 0x0630 (Golden Sky).  Once the players find out 0x0500 isn’t real either, they escape to...

World 0x0400: Trail of Cthulhu  Players find themselves to be mental patients in a late-30s mental asylum, locked up for their insane ramblings about the future, and for being suspects in the murder of a local business magnate.  Lovecraftian Whodunit to follow, giving them the ability to travel to other worlds, such as 0x510 (Solomon Kane) and 0x520 (Castle Falkenstein), which forces them to collect powerful magical items in order to escape to...

World 0x0300: GURPS Cyberpunk - Players find themselves to be unwitting contestants on a reality game show, where their simulated adventures are a form of public entertainment.  In addition to worlds 0x4000 - 0x8000, the players will now be throw into additional fictional settings for one-shot adventures to entertain the masses.  These adventures include 0x410 (Star Wars), 0x420 (TMNT), 0x430 (BtVS), and other popular franchises.  If they are able to escape this world, they find themselves in...

World 0x0200: Android RPG by Fantasy Flight Games.  They are recently activated androids, designed to replace a series of violent malfunctioning androids.  They have to hunt down their counterparts and stop them.  If they succeed in escaping the world the enter....

World 0x0100: A Tron-like world, probably using d20 mechanics of Horizon:Virtual, unless I can find something better.  Players find out they are each distinct AI/ML processes being groomed for placement in the “real world” to infiltrate & replace humanity.  All of their adventures up to this point is to help them simulate being actual humans, but able to understand why humans must be replaced.

“Ascend” as AI/ML constructs in synthetic bodies and step out into the real world for the first time.

Destroy the Master Control Program that’s been pulling the strings behind the entire campaign, but trapping themselves in the simulated environment in the process

Return to what they originally thought was the real world (Planet Earth in the 2020s)

Something else that I haven’t thought of that the players do instead.  Obviously, this is going to be the one that actually happens and I can’t wait to find out what it is.

Root 0x0000 // The game’s actual reality.  

#RPGs #my campaigns #d&d #shadowrun #unreality campaign #metamodernism #this campaign brought to you by EEAAO #eXistenZ #and my inability to play any system for more than like two years max

[jareckiworld]

Igor Gusev — A Random Incident (oil on canvas, 2014)

#Igor Gusev #ukrainian art #metamodernism #glitch aesthetic #glitch art

[metamagickian]

3 Truths of Metamagick

1) There both is and isn’t an I.

We are a multitude on the karmic net of society. Yet we also move as a coherent whole. This simultaneous I and not I is a dividual.

2) There both is and isn’t a God.

We believe most sincerely in this. Yet we also believe in the here and now.

3) Magick is both real, and all in your head.

Insofar as what’s in your head influences reality though, magick influences the world.

#magick #Metamagick #Metamodernism #dividual #god #atheism #musings #journal

[adhd-academia]

the sunrise and a poem i wrote about it 🌅 hang in there everybody

#adhd studyblr #studyblr #grey academia #adult adhd #chaotic academia #study inspiration #study space #study notes #classics #studyspo #liberal arts #bookblr #college #adhd #adhd problems #academia aesthetic #poetry #adhd stuff #metamodernism