metamodernism is exhausting
We live in the era of metamodernism. It consumes all art. It’s what you listen to, watch, and see. Quick refresher: Metamodernism is often depicted with a pendulum swinging back and forth between modernism and post-modernism. It compares and contrasts meaning with meaninglessness, irony with substance, pleasure with despair, etc. The comparison is the form. And it’s a fucking chore to sit through. Barbie, the film, is peak metamodernism. It needs to be feminist and […]