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Metamodernism's telos problem

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O. Alan Noble
May 16, 2025
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For the past year or so I have been reading largely encouraging articles about the movement that, according to some, comes after postmodernism, “metamodernism.” As opposed to postmodernisms skepticism of metanarratives and embrace of irony and pastiche and deconstruction, metamodernism is marked by “informed naivety, i…

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