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An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age

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Metamodernism has been the prevalent cultural philosophy since the mid 2000s. It’s associated with the Age of the Internet. What is metamodernism about?

The term metamodernism was coined in 1975 by Mas’ud Zavarzade, a writer and researcher, to describe an emerging cultural trend in American literature. Since then, the term has become popular and is frequently discussed in every corner of the Internet. If you are active on Twitter, blogging, using filters and stickers to edit photos before posting them online, creating memes, you may be applying metamodernist principles without realising it. When I ran a poll asking people if they knew what metamodernism was, 75% said they had no idea at all, and 20% said they had only a vague idea. Bear

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