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NEIL DIAMOND - Red Red Wine (Original 1968 Hit Version)

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Hot take: The celebration of Jimothy is metamodern. I mean, duh.

First ever live performance by Billy Bragg together with Wilco of the Mermaid Avenue project. www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

Mermaid Avenue Live From Solid Sound 2026!

A live performance of the first Mermaid Avenue Album with Billy Bragg, Wilco, and several guests artists as recorded live from the Solid Sound Festival.

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I don't understand 80% of what many of you share about your hobbies, hyperfixations and fandoms, but I want you to know that I still love how happy they make you. Your dorky joy is palpable and delightful.

As a Yale alum, I truly expected Yale to show more courage against the MAGA administration than it has so far. Here's hoping for a turn around!

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last mo.

Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org

In other words – and I'm not the first to say this but it bears emphasizing – The Swamp.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last mo.

I think the reason the Reflecting Pool is getting so much reaction is because it's a tangible metaphor for all the failures of this regime. It's a physical manifestation of toxicity, vanity, cost, error, and assigning blame.

Here's me talking about metamodernism primarily to a Greek audience on the fabulous Ideonio podcast. I am their first non-Greek guest and you can see on the youtube page that the comments are all in Greek! The hosts were really exuberant and sharp at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnSu...

What Comes After Postmodernism? | Greg Dember on Metamodernism | Ideonio Podcast

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Which AI tool would be best for creating a video of Don Trump throwing hamburgers at a newly restored Kennedy Center wall?

Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance about metamodernism and performance. Edited by Tom Drayton (@miserchristmas.bsky.social) and Luke Turner. Details in link. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0yxq...

That's not less-than-perfect writing. That's mindless ChatGPT slop utilizing formulaic structures to convey things the reader already knows.

Listen to your Spidey Sense! Don’t fall for the grift! In this excellent video essay, Douglas Rushkoff gives an account of an AI publishing scandal that he got tangled up in and humbly examines his own tendencies that initially led him into supporting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3f...

Spidey Sense in the Age of AI

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Dumb ends in 2028, and everybody knows that.

On the substance El-Sayed is right, but to be fair, I think he's the one who pivots to a talking point—ducking Cain's question—and it only looks strong to our side. To anyone who needs convincing, it would have been stronger for El-Sayed to directly address Cain's provocations about immigration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Will Cain repeatedly refuses to answer Abdul El-Sayed's question, "Do you pump your own gas?" (Note Cain desperately trying to pivot the conversation back to immigration, but El-Sayed doesn't let it go)

I wrote about Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, #metamodern auto-fiction, Object Oriented Ontology and A24. whatismetamodern.com/film/marcel-...

Marcel the Shell With Metamodernism On

It’s high time we posted about a favorite of ours here at What Is Metamodern? – the remarkable and thoroughly metamodern movie, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, 2021).

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Does anybody have a link to the video of Elon acting like a drugged-out freak in China. I saw the posts about it earlier but was not in a place where I could stop and actually watch and now I can't find them no matter how far back I scroll!

If they can do it, we can do it!

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Slightly diminish a book The Rather Predictable Travelogue of Kavalier and Clay

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Slightly diminish a book The Mid Gatsby

Thinking of starting a side-hustle consulting business in which I teach podcasters and influencers when to say "you and I" and when to say "you and me."

I like movies that have a score that sounds like a group of hippie drummers were locked in a monastery, fed healthy but tasty food and then trained in precision, understatement and implied melody.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I like movies that have a score that sounds like the microphone's been put inside a metal drum and rolled down a hill.

Some kind of joke built around: "If you take the eyes out of Idjit, you get DJT" I'm not exactly sure how to make it work, but I think there is something there.

First day of the Popular Culture Association Conference in Atlanta! I'll be presenting "Metamodern Cringe Comedy and The Chair Company" on Friday.

Well this is exciting! I was interviewed about metamodernism on Australia's public broadcast network, the ABC. The host, David Rutledge, was really fun to talk to and I thought he did a great job of guiding and shaping the conversation. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Sincerity, irony and metamodernism - ABC listen

The supposed evils of postmodern culture have been endlessly catalogued: moral relativism, the loss of shared values, ironic detachment, a pathological aversion to sincerity, and all rooted in a philo...

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Project Hail Mary is a delightful and inspiring science-fiction, save-the-world, animatronic, Ryan-Gosling-vehicle, metamodern buddy movie. Definitely recommended. And people I went to see it with who had read the original Andy Weir novel loved the adaptation.

YES! OBAA works as a Left-sympathetic film not by presenting an irrefutable case for Left ideology but by telling a human story about revolutionary Left people, including their flaws and failings. It treats revolutionaries as subjects not representatives. To me, this is metamodern political cinema.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

fascism is the aestheticization of politics; one response is the politicization of art - AND YET, art is not a political pamphlet or policy platform, a feature film definitionally cannot have coherent politics, certainly not a politics of immediatist presentation of the right values, hope this helps

Every TV series that is about professors at a college is PRETTY GOOD but also slightly flawed in some way or other.

It's a sad day in Sunnydale.😢😢😢😢 deadline.com/2026/03/buff...

'Buffy' Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Dead At Hulu

Hulu has opted not to proceed with its Buffy the Vampire reboot, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Chloé Zhao directed the pilot, Buddy: New Sunnydale.

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As an editor, this whole project was a lot of fun for me, as was this recorded Zoom gathering to celebrate the release of the book.

What Is Metamodern?@what-is-metamodern.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A discussion, with editors and contributors, on the recently published _My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens_

Got my author copies of this today!

Making the playlist for "walking in music" for tomorrow's Sufjan Stevens book release Zoom event.

We will be celebrating the release of MY IMPOSSIBLE SOUL: THE METAMODERN MUSIC OF SUFJAN STEVENS on Zoom on FRIDAY, MARCH 6 at 11am Pacific time. Message me for Zoom deets.