Say Hello to Metamodernism! with Greg Dember

Folio: The Seattle Atheaneum is delighted to welcome writer, thinker and music maker Greg Dember for a reading and conversation on Say Hello to Metamodernism! Understanding Today's Culture of Ironesty, Felt Experience, and Empathic Reflexivity.

Say Hello to Metamodernism offers a guided tour of one of the newer “isms” on the block, metamodernism – the cultural period many say began emerging around the turn of the millennium, after postmodernism had lost much of its charm. By emphasizing qualities such as individual felt experience, and by braiding playful irony and experimentation with an unabashed delight in the intricacies of being human, metamodern artworks both reflect and help generate a new cultural sensibility. To understand it is to come to understand something about ourselves in today’s world.

Within these pages, Greg Dember weaves his own encounters with society’s shifting sensibilities into an exploration of metamodernist works by musicians such as Sufjan Stevens,…