Metamodernism
Cultural philosophy oscillating between modernist sincerity and postmodern irony. Neither naive optimism nor cynical skepticism but oscillation. Informed naivety: sincerity aware of irony. Hope tempered by doubt. Vermeulen and van den Akker: metamodernism emerges post-2000s. Applied to art, politics, and culture. New Sincerity in arts. Reconstruction after deconstruction. Pragmatic idealism. Both-and thinking beyond either-or. Generative confusion as methodology.
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