Barbheimer also speaks back to the broken marriages of the 50s & 60s by exemplifying the masculine Oppenheimer & the feminine Barbie in artistic contrast, one in bright bubble gum color, & the other in somber muted tones of black & white, who's back stories are from the same time period.
People still don't understand it, that's why they're watching this video. And I'll be honest, this video did not do much to explain wtf it means. You're still in the "I was into it before it was cool!" zone. Lucky you?
There's not much to understand. It's an incoherent mess that is defined differently by almost everyone who discusses it. No one ever gives any concrete metamodern prescriptions to specific problems because they don't have a coherent idea of what they're talking about. I think people just desperately want to transcend being existentially depressed impotent postmodernists, which is understandable, but in a fully postmodern spirit, I'm deconstructing meta modernism, and so far, there's really not much there. Just a lot of cognitive dissonance and a yearning for a more positive world.
I agree with metamodernist values but absolutely hated "Barbie". It was not sincere in the slightest. It was a long self referential complaint based on identity politics. And thoroughly cynical about men.
its not buzzwords, they are sociological jargon. "Buzzword" as a term is reductive of their purpose of describing things. It just shouldn't be used with layperson audiences.
@@TheAudiovisualEssayist While I understood it as a psych major I do think a lot of the terms are lost on laypeople, perhaps it would help expand your audience if you defined your terms while also giving examples of them instead of just the definition. Examples make it concrete for people who might be more visual or tactile learners vs just by listening to the words.
@@TheAudiovisualEssayistTo elaborate with examples within the first 30 seconds you use words like "portmanteau" or "counterprogramming" or "diametrically opposed" and not everyone knows what those terms mean. Imagine you're trying to deliver this information to a high school senior in the regular english class, then you have a grasp of the average internet user. A little later you use "socio-cultural mode of thought" and "metamodern structures of feeling" of which you explain the latter but in a long-winded fashion. Perhaps your target audience is more liberal arts college-educated people in which case go off but these terms tend to impede understanding for laypeople. Good video overall, really interesting as someone who loves analyzing literature and film. If I could give some constructive feedback for potentially expanding your audience, it would be to in part, frame the presentation towards your audience's understanding vs. communicating your analysis as specifically as possible. Often we use words like these to be as accurate as possible in our descriptions but for most people this specificity in rhetoric is too abstract and need something to dumb it down conceptually. Something that could help is offering an example of the sociocultural phenomenon you're speaking about before using or explaining the term, for example lets take counterprogramming, "Have you ever noticed the variety of films that release and are playing in theaters at the same time? For example, a G-rated disney movie might release in the early summer along with a PG-13 action blockbuster and an R rated horror flick. One of the reasons for this variety is counterprogramming, a strategy production and distribution companies take to reach as many diverse audiences as possible with their products." which would help your audience understand what you're getting at when you go ahead and explain the meta modern structures of feeling. For most laypeople it takes a 3 variable approach to explain complex ideas or words. You want 1. A concrete example of it in the real world i.e. the example of the movies that release at once for counterprogramming. 2. the name of the phenomenon you just described i.e. introduce "counterprogramming" and 3. explain the definition of the term in the context of the concrete example that was given i.e. "this strategy of simultaneously releasing films of vastly different genres and purposes is a perfect example of counterprogramming as companies use this diversity in product to diversify their audiences". I noticed in your video sometimes you would just throw a word like that in without explanation, or sometimes you would just offer the explanation and the word but no examples, or sometimes you would bring up an example without contextualizing it with the explanation of the phenomenon. Just a thought lol, almost like a rhetorical shift provides counterprogramming within your own video to attract wider audiences. Best of luck to your channel man, good video!
@@TheWerttyFilesif the sociological jargon are not mere buzzwords, please provide an analysis of any significant material situation impacting humans through a metamodern lens. I want to know how a metamodern approach works, and I want to know what prescriptions it can offer to real, material problems, not just how it can be a coping mechanism for psychological problems such as existential malaise. My operating conjecture is that no one who claims to be a metamodernist or to understand metamodernism can do this because it's an incoherent word salad. Its ontology is not reconcilable in a way that's free of paradox. How can you synthesize all past value systems in a neo-romantic spirit and it's all post ideological. The sad thing is that the proponents of this want so badly to be credited with something new but even ideology that doesn't recognize itself is not new. What's the through-line phrase in the book of Lamentations -- "There is nothing new under the sun" I think?
no. metamodernism is NOT an oscillation between modernism and postmodernism. this is a pseudo-metamodernism. the real metamodernism synthesises them. and this "sincere irony / ironical sincerity" is just a pure bullshit.
Can you explain how the synthesis of the two is not bullshit? How can they be coherently synthesized? Can you give an analysis. E.g., what is a metamodern analysis of the cobalt supply chain? Can we reconcile horrible, high-risk slave working conditions in the Chinese-owned mines in the DRC with our desire for the latest smartphone, or cobalt-heavy electric vehicles, or our broader technological dependence on li-ion batteries? Like how can metamodernism be used to understand this situation, and what prescriptions can it offer us on what to do about it? I've not yet heard anyone give a coherent specific metamodern analysis of anything. They just talk in big abstract dreamy ways. If I can't apply a meta modernist approach to actually develop real-world policy initiatives, it's just a muddled coping mechanism or something more sinister as far as I'm concerned.
Oscillating between irony and sincerity is doable. Sythesizing all ideologies and value systems together into some post-ideological value system that is supposed to resolve all paradoxes in a neo-romantic spirit is the richest bullshit i ever heard. I began looking into metamodernism because i want to transcend postmodernism's endless desert of deconstruction and relativising, but this is just a more absurd desert. The desert might be all there is 🤷 It would be nice to transcend to something more grandly optimistic than absurdism and active or positive nihilism, but that might be it. Sorry folks, better go rebel harder! 😶🌫️🫠🦆🤷 Edit: Barbie is not profound or deep. It's yearning for change is not sincere. The entire purpose of Barbie is for the material benefit of Mattel, as is the purpose of all the other movies they have planned. This is the company that has little girls working in horrible conditions in Chinese factories making chump change and living in severely under-maintained quarters that often have flea infestations and they are served slop befitting of pigs. All of this is the material reality so free privileged American girls can play with the Barbie doll, the product of the girl slaves' labor and forfeiture of childhood. Mattel sells a commodified antithesis of its own ethics and it doesn't care. If it gives the brand a better image and more recognition and ultimately leads to better bottom lines for the cronies, it was a good business move. It's a completely nihilist enterprise and not in a positive way.
I remember the Metamoderm manifiesto spoke of oscillation between irony and sincerity. Barbheimer is literally that.
Barbheimer also speaks back to the broken marriages of the 50s & 60s by exemplifying the masculine Oppenheimer & the feminine Barbie in artistic contrast, one in bright bubble gum color, & the other in somber muted tones of black & white, who's back stories are from the same time period.
You articulated this whole concept really well and this video should be everywhere.
I have previous knowledge of this topic, so really appreciated the swift video with great points.
Hoping this channel gets more exposure!
Only 500 views?? My guy made a hq video essay on meta modernism this gotta blow up
I understood about 47% of what you were saying at any one time but somehow enjoyed it the entire way
Wow! This is very complex, but very important. I enjoy all your analysis.
Keep it up shant great editing, great speaker voice 10/10
Metamodernism was better before everyone heard of it and still didn't understand it.
People still don't understand it, that's why they're watching this video. And I'll be honest, this video did not do much to explain wtf it means. You're still in the "I was into it before it was cool!" zone. Lucky you?
People still don't understand it
There's not much to understand. It's an incoherent mess that is defined differently by almost everyone who discusses it. No one ever gives any concrete metamodern prescriptions to specific problems because they don't have a coherent idea of what they're talking about. I think people just desperately want to transcend being existentially depressed impotent postmodernists, which is understandable, but in a fully postmodern spirit, I'm deconstructing meta modernism, and so far, there's really not much there. Just a lot of cognitive dissonance and a yearning for a more positive world.
Shut up lil bro
metamodernism is self aware modernism
What do you use to edit?
After Effecta
What?
The West will be saved
I agree with metamodernist values but absolutely hated "Barbie". It was not sincere in the slightest. It was a long self referential complaint based on identity politics. And thoroughly cynical about men.
Too many buzzwords, not enough explanation
its not buzzwords, they are sociological jargon. "Buzzword" as a term is reductive of their purpose of describing things. It just shouldn't be used with layperson audiences.
The important element here is that you know metamodernism when you see it. You feel the concept.
@@TheAudiovisualEssayist While I understood it as a psych major I do think a lot of the terms are lost on laypeople, perhaps it would help expand your audience if you defined your terms while also giving examples of them instead of just the definition. Examples make it concrete for people who might be more visual or tactile learners vs just by listening to the words.
@@TheAudiovisualEssayistTo elaborate with examples within the first 30 seconds you use words like "portmanteau" or "counterprogramming" or "diametrically opposed" and not everyone knows what those terms mean. Imagine you're trying to deliver this information to a high school senior in the regular english class, then you have a grasp of the average internet user.
A little later you use "socio-cultural mode of thought" and "metamodern structures of feeling" of which you explain the latter but in a long-winded fashion.
Perhaps your target audience is more liberal arts college-educated people in which case go off but these terms tend to impede understanding for laypeople.
Good video overall, really interesting as someone who loves analyzing literature and film. If I could give some constructive feedback for potentially expanding your audience, it would be to in part, frame the presentation towards your audience's understanding vs. communicating your analysis as specifically as possible. Often we use words like these to be as accurate as possible in our descriptions but for most people this specificity in rhetoric is too abstract and need something to dumb it down conceptually.
Something that could help is offering an example of the sociocultural phenomenon you're speaking about before using or explaining the term, for example lets take counterprogramming, "Have you ever noticed the variety of films that release and are playing in theaters at the same time? For example, a G-rated disney movie might release in the early summer along with a PG-13 action blockbuster and an R rated horror flick. One of the reasons for this variety is counterprogramming, a strategy production and distribution companies take to reach as many diverse audiences as possible with their products." which would help your audience understand what you're getting at when you go ahead and explain the meta modern structures of feeling.
For most laypeople it takes a 3 variable approach to explain complex ideas or words. You want 1. A concrete example of it in the real world i.e. the example of the movies that release at once for counterprogramming. 2. the name of the phenomenon you just described i.e. introduce "counterprogramming" and 3. explain the definition of the term in the context of the concrete example that was given i.e. "this strategy of simultaneously releasing films of vastly different genres and purposes is a perfect example of counterprogramming as companies use this diversity in product to diversify their audiences".
I noticed in your video sometimes you would just throw a word like that in without explanation, or sometimes you would just offer the explanation and the word but no examples, or sometimes you would bring up an example without contextualizing it with the explanation of the phenomenon. Just a thought lol, almost like a rhetorical shift provides counterprogramming within your own video to attract wider audiences. Best of luck to your channel man, good video!
@@TheWerttyFilesif the sociological jargon are not mere buzzwords, please provide an analysis of any significant material situation impacting humans through a metamodern lens. I want to know how a metamodern approach works, and I want to know what prescriptions it can offer to real, material problems, not just how it can be a coping mechanism for psychological problems such as existential malaise. My operating conjecture is that no one who claims to be a metamodernist or to understand metamodernism can do this because it's an incoherent word salad. Its ontology is not reconcilable in a way that's free of paradox. How can you synthesize all past value systems in a neo-romantic spirit and it's all post ideological. The sad thing is that the proponents of this want so badly to be credited with something new but even ideology that doesn't recognize itself is not new. What's the through-line phrase in the book of Lamentations -- "There is nothing new under the sun" I think?
no. metamodernism is NOT an oscillation between modernism and postmodernism. this is a pseudo-metamodernism. the real metamodernism synthesises them. and this "sincere irony / ironical sincerity" is just a pure bullshit.
Can you explain how the synthesis of the two is not bullshit? How can they be coherently synthesized? Can you give an analysis. E.g., what is a metamodern analysis of the cobalt supply chain? Can we reconcile horrible, high-risk slave working conditions in the Chinese-owned mines in the DRC with our desire for the latest smartphone, or cobalt-heavy electric vehicles, or our broader technological dependence on li-ion batteries? Like how can metamodernism be used to understand this situation, and what prescriptions can it offer us on what to do about it? I've not yet heard anyone give a coherent specific metamodern analysis of anything. They just talk in big abstract dreamy ways. If I can't apply a meta modernist approach to actually develop real-world policy initiatives, it's just a muddled coping mechanism or something more sinister as far as I'm concerned.
Oscillating between irony and sincerity is doable. Sythesizing all ideologies and value systems together into some post-ideological value system that is supposed to resolve all paradoxes in a neo-romantic spirit is the richest bullshit i ever heard. I began looking into metamodernism because i want to transcend postmodernism's endless desert of deconstruction and relativising, but this is just a more absurd desert. The desert might be all there is 🤷 It would be nice to transcend to something more grandly optimistic than absurdism and active or positive nihilism, but that might be it. Sorry folks, better go rebel harder! 😶🌫️🫠🦆🤷
Edit: Barbie is not profound or deep. It's yearning for change is not sincere. The entire purpose of Barbie is for the material benefit of Mattel, as is the purpose of all the other movies they have planned. This is the company that has little girls working in horrible conditions in Chinese factories making chump change and living in severely under-maintained quarters that often have flea infestations and they are served slop befitting of pigs. All of this is the material reality so free privileged American girls can play with the Barbie doll, the product of the girl slaves' labor and forfeiture of childhood. Mattel sells a commodified antithesis of its own ethics and it doesn't care. If it gives the brand a better image and more recognition and ultimately leads to better bottom lines for the cronies, it was a good business move. It's a completely nihilist enterprise and not in a positive way.