“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
Like I said before... Our problem is that the capital's "disciplinary matrix" hasn't changed yet... and so no radically changed "future" is possible. We're trapped in a "cycle" of Enlightenment modernities. Toffler's "Power Shift" hasn't kicked in yet.
Oscillation or vascillation? Metamodernism seems to use quite a lot of words to say nothing.
ReplyDeleteAre these the new Pavel Jerdanowitch's and Pierre Brassau's of our time?
Indeed. They have me wondering...
ReplyDeleteOriginally the term was directed towards explaining the Alt-Right... but the white nationalists kinda tarred the entire genre.
ReplyDeleteThe alt-right is just 1930s left-wing progressivism with Harambe memes
ReplyDelete...and MetaModernism is likely simply the latest trend in Madison Avenue's exploitation of Cultural Capitalism.
ReplyDeleteLike I said before... Our problem is that the capital's "disciplinary matrix" hasn't changed yet... and so no radically changed "future" is possible. We're trapped in a "cycle" of Enlightenment modernities. Toffler's "Power Shift" hasn't kicked in yet.
ReplyDeleteRecycled "knowledge"
ReplyDeletePerhaps "metamodernism" is just modernism hoisting post-modernism on it's own petards.
ReplyDeleteLike curing solipsism with a brick to the face.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
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