The Life Metamodern in Wes Anderson Films (Postmodern Realities Podcast)
- Andy McIlvain
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Video from Bible Answer Man
The Life Metamodern in Wes Anderson Films (Postmodern Realities Podcast)
"Metamodernism as a term, like modernism and postmodernism, is best held loosely as a general descriptor of a set of attitudes and interests. Philosophically, we often use the term modernity and postmodernity to describe a tendency toward rationalistic anti-traditionalism (as with modernity) or a skeptical anti-rationalism (as with postmodernity). Artistically, there is kinship between the terms. Modernism in art broke with tradition to examine the fundamental principles of art in search of artistic meaning (as with abstract art). Postmodernism playfully deconstructed the artificial assumptions of artistic meaning (as with found-object art). Simplifying to the extreme, modern movements broke with tradition optimistically. Postmodern movements broke with modern movements pessimistically.
Wes Anderson’s movies embody the metamodern ethos in that they assume that the world is a sad, weary place. Traditional symbols of meaning have lost much of their value. But through the investment of passion and energy, the problems of postmodernism can be transcended, perhaps only briefly, by an obsession with a project in a found community. Thus, the central figure in most Anderson movies will be a driving force with a creative project who creates a community.
The irony of created meaning is that one can always recall it was created by a specific person. The fingerprints of the creator are still visible. There is more truth in metamodern hopefulness than in postmodern cynicism, to be sure, but the only lasting hope is rooted in a hopeful metanarrative." from the video introduction
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