Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr
A really, really solid video essay describing modernism vs postmodernism vs metamodernism in films. Probably will be my goto to send to people if they wonder about metamodernism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEi8qg266g
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
@vgr would love your take on this
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Thanks, just watched it. Very solid and does what it aims to do very thoroughly. Helped me realize what my own main critique of metamodernism is and why I’m basically not onboard with it: it uncritically treats emotional sincerity as a kind of self-evident truth that’s beyond critique.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
In doing so it simply substitutes unexamined claims to subjective truths for unexamined claims to objective truths. That’s why I like the idea (Rob Knight via Vinay Gupta) that metamodernism is just modernism in drag and fundamentally reactionary.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
MM’s claimed project of resisting nihilism is good. It just doesn’t actually engage in it. I think cringe comedy is in fact the more truthful successor to postmodernism. It presents the misregistration between the felt genuineness of sincere emotion and the reality of context.
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