metamodernism & the new sincerity
a structure of feeling
metamodernism & the new sincerity
There’s a feedback loop of nostalgia. Not just nostalgia and trauma. We’re always looking back into the past to see why we are here right now. “Oh, it’s because this happened to me.” As opposed to – and this is what you’ve been talking about for ever – where is the new idea? Where is our vision of the future? Because nobody believes in the future a... See more
Paul MacInnes • ‘Nobody Believes in the Future Any More’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on How to Wake Up From the Post-Truth Nightmare
AA: Certainty has gone for ever now. With the advent of deepfake and AI-generated imagery, belief in what we’re seeing and hearing is now forever gone.
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more
Paul MacInnes • ‘Nobody Believes in the Future Any More’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on How to Wake Up From the Post-Truth Nightmare
Bundled debt, trace amounts of antidepressants in the municipal water, the vast arterial network of traffic, changing weather patterns of increasing severity—whenever I looked at lower Manhattan from Whitman’s side of the river I resolved to become one of the artists who momentarily made bad forms of collectivity figures of its possibility, a propr
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felt all those orders of temporality—the biological, the historical, the geological—combine and interfere and then dissolve.
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“I agree it’s a crazy time,” I said. “But I think in times like these we have to try to stay connected to people. And we have to try to make our own days, despite all the chaos. We have to focus on feeling comfortable in our own skin, and we need to be open to getting help with that.” I was desperately trying to channel my parents.
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but there is that intimacy of parallel gazes I feel when we stand before a canvas or walk across a bridge.
Ben Lerner • 10:04
I looked up at the looming buildings whose presence I could now sense more than see and wondered how many people were still inside them. Here and there you could perceive a beam moving across a window, a flame, the glow of an LED, but the overall effect was of emptiness. I told Alex I felt fine. For some reason I imagined there were Sabbath elevato
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the affects that predominate in late capitalism are fear and cynicism. These emotions do not inspire bold thinking or entrepreneurial leaps, they breed conformity and the cult of the minimal variation, the turning out of products which very closely resemble those that are already successful.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
