Screens. Bright fingers that claw at our eyes. Expressions of tenderness, movements of thought, sexual fantasies, our greatest battles. More and more, we occur on screens over invisible waves. That metamodernism has been largely characterized by comparisons to the New Sincerity and Romanticism is a disservice to the scope of the emerging cultural dominant. These are of course helpful in our understanding of metamodernism; both, in their way, foreground the felt experience over the rational. But ...
Screens. Bright fingers that claw at our eyes. Expressions of tenderness, movements of thought, sexual fantasies, our greatest battles. More and more, we occur on screens over invisible waves. That metamodernism has been largely characterized by comparisons to the New Sincerity and Romanticism is a disservice to the scope of the emerging cultural dominant. These are of course helpful in our understanding of metamodernism; both, in their way, foreground the felt experience over the rational. But ...
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