metamodernism & the new sincerity
a structure of feeling
metamodernism & the new sincerity
The new normal is quite similar to the old normal, just lacking the attachments created by everyday contact.
Just a moment...
It’s so weird , I text my friend, presumptively, to watch a stranger have what will obviously be one of the singular most beautiful moments of their entire life . I love the city for this, most of the time, for its vast de-privatization of sentiment — I like bearing witness to the best and worst of other people, and I like the knowledge that I am... See more
Resident evil
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
... See moreBen Lerner • 10:04
Alice, the elderly neighbour in Moss’ novel, muses that ‘nothing feels real any more’ (2021: 19). This affect, the novels suggest, comes from living in times estranged by the constant chatter of the emotion-packed 24/7 news cycle. In Pollard’s novel, in fact, the narrator feels that TV and lived reality have fused: ‘Everything that wasn’t TV is TV... See more
Just a moment...
media and sense of reality linked, as in lockwood
That Y2K brand of irony – glib, evasive, laddish – is gone. Good riddance to it. It’s hard to be flippant when you know which way the arc of the universe really bends.
Flashlight by Susan Choi review – big, bold and surprising
flashlight by susan choi
For Berlant, one of the effects of being surrounded by permanent and interlocked crises is a sense of stasis. They were especially interested in situations where ‘the ordinary becomes a landfill for overwhelming and impending crises of life-building and expecta-tion’ (Berlant, 2011: 3). This inability to imagine possible futures, however, does not... See more
Just a moment...
on imagining futures in periods of continued crisis
felt all those orders of temporality—the biological, the historical, the geological—combine and interfere and then dissolve.
Ben Lerner • 10:04
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.