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Podcast: Thinking Out Loud
Episode: What comes after postmodernism?
Description: In a superb video essay, Thomas Flight argues that today’s movies feel different because we’re venturing beyond postmodernism into what he terms “metamodernism”—a sensibility that’s every bit as ironic and self-aware as postmodernism, but that nevertheless takes on a more hopeful posture. Is this a profound new movement or breakthrough, or does the emperor have no clothes? Join us for a lively discussion.