Post-postmodernism
Metamodernism
digimodernism
post liberalism?
post-analog?
virtual era
Augmented Era
idk, suggest some alternatives
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An academic pissing contest to name it. I’m not kidding. Cosmodernism, metamodernism, transmodernism, remodernism, etc., they’re all trying to make these stick. It’s always a reaction to, but partial furthering-of, the movement that came before it. So if at its simplest modernism is “oh my god we’re fucked, how do we make sense of it” and postmodernism is “oh my god we’re fucked, let’s have fun with it,” I think we will see a desire to return to order and sincerity, but with, as I would be inclined to agree with Alan Kirby, a shallowness resulting from technological progress and the “brainrot” mediums (so to speak) that we’re increasingly immersed in. He throws “pseudo-modernism” in the ring as a contender.
postpostmodernism, simple as that :)
Exactly. It happened already, and we’ve already moved beyond post postmodernism.
I mean, I was studying post postmodernism as a historical moment in the 1990s.
We’ll make everyone gay.
We can call it transrealism.
Oh, shit, mah frogs!
Postermodernism, of course.
Modposternism
I took a class on this a long time ago and the professor said the thing that follows post-modernism is Virtue Ethics, which iirc is like “what kind of person do I want to be?” instead of focusing on strict rules. More like following a role model to determine what is good/true/beautiful rather than a set of abstract beliefs.
lol oh also I should have said “we” instead of “I” because another significant way in which Virtue Ethics differs from both modernism and postmodernism is that it places the focus on collective community rather than the individual.
New sincerity, probably.
Yeah. I feel that a lot of later 20th and early 21st century work has shifted from deconstructionism to some form of constructionism, attempting to build from culture rather than demolish it to its core items. I just don’t know what that will look like.
Anarchism/Buddhism
Post-modernism was very iconoclastic. It loved the Matrix as it shouted how reality is dead. In the wake of postmodernism, those who were swayed by it are left looking for meaning in an absurd reality. The best places to find direction in the aftermath of an existential crisis are anarchism and Buddhism, IMO. Both can be engaged with completely solo (negating potential abuse from power structures), both teach and encourage thinking for yourself, both encourage empathy, both are science-supported… the list goes on.
Anarchism is a political system for a world without rulers. Buddhism is a religious system for a world without suffering. These two are deeply compatible.
And neither expects you to read David Foster Wallace again
Corpo-feudalism?
Postmodernism was established because nobody could agree on what was happening after modernism, so they just meant for it to be “after modernism”. Some say that there will no longer be “eras” or “movements” that we have detached our society from collective identities. But I would argue that the qualifier for a collective identity like modernism or the renaissance, is all about what was most valued at the time. And today, I would argue that we are in an age of individualism. Loss of trust and belief in any system, and as we slide closer to anarchy, we will soon find it’s not as “cool” as we think it is. It’s just rule by power.
After postmodernism there has to be an attempt to take the best from postmodernism, modernism, traditionalism and use them in a situation-appropriate way, fluidly and naturally. Because none of those previous stages had the full picture and each has something to offer.
Ken Wilber called this stage “Integral”
post liberalism?
Unfortunately this one’s already here.
Revolution
Shitholpia
It goes around in cycles, and “postmodernism” is just the name we gave to the idea of borrowing superficially from movements of the past without submitting to the deeper totalising meanings that the aesthetic/stylistic details in question emerged from, at that point in history. (It was so named because it contrasted with 20th-century high modernism and its belief in overarching systems and the possibility of universal meanings.) Looking back in history, you find postmodern-style epochs of stylistic appropriation/recontextualisation at various times, such as the rediscovery of classical aesthetics during the Renaissance.
It could be argued that postmodernism emerged from an unspoken universalising ideology: the me-first individualism of the baby-boom generation and the market-oriented neoliberalism that took charge in the US and UK at the start of the 80s and proclaimed its victory for all time when the USSR fell (as in Fukuyama’s “end of history”); to wit: there are no universal truths, only individual opinions, all overseen by the invisible hand of the market. Since then, history has loudly restarted, and the eternal consumerist utopia of the 90s feels as retrofuturistic as an episode of The Jetsons. Parts of postmodernism will be absorbed into what follows where useful (i.e. the idea of novels having metanarratives, or sampling/appropriation by mechanical reproduction as a creative tool), others will become a stereotypical period feature, in the way that that art-deco font signifies the 1920s or angular motel signs the 1950s, and the cycle will resume.
Having said that, with history having restarted, various kinds of Romanticism and/or Neue Sachlichkeit-style realism could emerge; though, of course, not in the same form as past versions.
IDK, maybe “5-over-1”?
comparison
Modernism:
Postmodernism:
Currently-popular style after postmodernism, coinciding with an explosion of popularity of “5-over-1” apartment buildings because of recent changes in the building code:
