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Metamodernist // Manifesto
Amidst these many “candidates” to transcend modernity and postmodernity, what perhaps distinguishes metamodernism the most regardless of its different schools of thought within it, is its emphasis on an emerging or newly born collective sensibility or “feelings’’ pointing towards a new cultural milieu which reflects the current late stage of global
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Manifestos are repositories of a kind of magic and madness that does not exist in any other genre.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna
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Metamodernism is thus also more optimistic than modernism as it strives to go beyond its shortcomings, and thus inherently more optimistic than postmodernism, which lacks faith in modernity and its metanarrative of progress.
from Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight by Alex Fergnani
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