Hi Brendan, Good job! I don’t agree with every aspect of the analysis but appreciate the effort made to find the pattern that connects and the clarity of exposition is luminous. Hats off. That said, I confess to feeling a little neglected and overlooked. As you know I’ve written about these matters at length (albeit before reading Storm’s book) and while you don’t have to agree with me, given that you start with books published in this period, some kind of passing engagement with the book, Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity which deals with metamodernism in several chapters, and with Metamodernism and the Perception of Context preface in particular would have been, let’s say, collegiate. No doubt I should reflect on my needy and plaintive reflection, which won’t make it any less needy and plaintive, but it remains real while still being lightly and somewhat ironically held. In that context, the most authentic response I can offer is to say that I was both impressed and disappointed by the synthesis. The issue is not just a hungry ego seeking validation. I disagree about Hanzi for reasons I outline at length, and I give my own non-trivial summary of what I think metamodernism entails. The references to Latin American liberation theology and Yoruba art are also, I believe, indispensable elements in the history of metamodernism. I wonder if and how they can be incorporated into your model. I imagine they can, but the role of metamodernism in resisting hypermodernism also feels central to me, and the fact they shift the register well away from europatriarchial ratiocination is no small thing. I am also far from sure the metamodern cultural theorists would agree with your synthesis, partly because they tend to reject the idea that metamodernism is in the psyche and prefer to locate it in the cultural artefacts. That might be a bigger deal than it first appears. Anyway, plenty to talk about when time allows. Qualms aside, I see and appreciate the quality of the work and the contribution to the field is significant. Well done. 🙏
Hi Brendan, Good job! I don’t agree with every aspect of the analysis but appreciate the effort made to find the pattern that connects and the clarity of exposition is luminous. Hats off. That said, I confess to feeling a little neglected and overlooked. As you know I’ve written about these matters at length (albeit before reading Storm’s book) and while you don’t have to agree with me, given that you start with books published in this period, some kind of passing engagement with the book, Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity which deals with metamodernism in several chapters, and with Metamodernism and the Perception of Context preface in particular would have been, let’s say, collegiate. No doubt I should reflect on my needy and plaintive reflection, which won’t make it any less needy and plaintive, but it remains real while still being lightly and somewhat ironically held. In that context, the most authentic response I can offer is to say that I was both impressed and disappointed by the synthesis. The issue is not just a hungry ego seeking validation. I disagree about Hanzi for reasons I outline at length, and I give my own non-trivial summary of what I think metamodernism entails. The references to Latin American liberation theology and Yoruba art are also, I believe, indispensable elements in the history of metamodernism. I wonder if and how they can be incorporated into your model. I imagine they can, but the role of metamodernism in resisting hypermodernism also feels central to me, and the fact they shift the register well away from europatriarchial ratiocination is no small thing. I am also far from sure the metamodern cultural theorists would agree with your synthesis, partly because they tend to reject the idea that metamodernism is in the psyche and prefer to locate it in the cultural artefacts. That might be a bigger deal than it first appears. Anyway, plenty to talk about when time allows. Qualms aside, I see and appreciate the quality of the work and the contribution to the field is significant. Well done. 🙏