Say Hello to Metamodernism is a guided tour of one of the newer “isms”: metamodernism, the cultural period many say began emerging around the turn of the millennium, after irony-bound, depth-allergic postmodernism had lost much of its charm. By emphasizing qualities such as individual interiority – and by braiding playful irony or experimentation with an unabashed delight in the intricacies of being human – metamodern cultural products are said to engage and move beyond the conflict between postmodernism’s ironic relativism and its predecessor modernism’s adamant faith in progress and objectively knowable truth. Though the book is not a memoir, per se, the author, Greg Dember, weaves the story of his own encounters with society’s shifting aesthetic sensibilities into an exploration of representative metamodernist work by musicians such as Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith and Billie Eilish; by filmmakers like Miranda July and Wes Anderson and Greta Gerwig; by novelists such as Dave Eggers, Elif Batuman and Tope Folarin; and in television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bojack Horseman and Atlanta, while also covering how the metamodern sensibility is expressed in contemporary design, slang, religion and politics. Dember writes in a thoughtful, engaging style that is effective both at translating existing academic concepts into language meaningful to ordinary fans of the arts (and artists themselves) and introducing his original ideas about metamodernism to scholarly theorists of the arts and culture.About the Greg Dember is co-founder (2013) of whatismetamodern.com, I have spoken about metamodernism on many podcasts, most notably an episode receiving 3,300,000 views on Thomas Flight’s Youtube channel. An independent researcher, I have been selected to present on metamodernism-related topics at six academic conferences, and have published three articles or chapters about metamodernism in academic publications. My popular Medium article, “After Eleven Metamodern Methods in the Arts,” is influential among lay audiences and has even been cited in peer-reviewed academic writing on metamodernism. My thinking partner Linda Ceriello and I co-host our own youtube channel. My B.A. (1987) is from Yale University.

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