A Tedious Oscillation Between Heartfelt Knowledge and Tears: A Metamodern Essay on Bo Burnham’s Work
Document Types
Arts and Design Research Presentation
Research Advisor (Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial)
Juan Miguel O. Moreno
Abstract/Executive Summary
Ever since the late 1900s until the early 2000s, philosophers such as Linda Hutcheon declared the death of the postmodern senses and looked ahead to a new generation of intellectuals to provide a heading and analysis for what was still a new concept. David Wallace perceived that literature had to shift away from irony and postmodern deception to recover a forgotten referentiality and essentialism. He introduced the notion of using sincerity and honesty, which conform to the beliefs of transcendentalism. Successively, this gave rise to the birth of the idea of New Sincerity commonly defined as an oscillation between irony and honesty, which some scholars perceive as synonymous with the term metamodern. Yet, they are almost always associated with each other; such resolution is imprecise. According to Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker the scholars who lay the groundwork for it: Metamodernism is the reaction after the postmodern epoch. Metamodern, similar to new sincerity, is an oscillation, the unfortunate negotiation between two opposing poles. Undoubtedly, as a new trend or a new cultural paradigm emerges to succeed its predecessor, the majority of the new generation of artists, academics, the populace, and such will embody the ideologies and characteristics of the cultural shift knowingly or not, that signify a variation of a new world. Bo Burnham, an artist, and comedian have inevitably personified the qualities. With that said, the paper will examine the essence of metamodernism and whether Bo Burnham's 'Inside' exemplifies the phenomenon's characteristics.
Keywords
postmodernism; metamodernism; oscillation; hyper self-reflexivity; Bo Burnham
Research Theme (for Paper Presentation and Poster Presentation submissions only)
Creative Writing (CW)
Start Date
12-5-2022 1:00 PM
End Date
13-5-2022 12:00 PM
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A Tedious Oscillation Between Heartfelt Knowledge and Tears: A Metamodern Essay on Bo Burnham’s Work
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Ever since the late 1900s until the early 2000s, philosophers such as Linda Hutcheon declared the death of the postmodern senses and looked ahead to a new generation of intellectuals to provide a heading and analysis for what was still a new concept. David Wallace perceived that literature had to shift away from irony and postmodern deception to recover a forgotten referentiality and essentialism. He introduced the notion of using sincerity and honesty, which conform to the beliefs of transcendentalism. Successively, this gave rise to the birth of the idea of New Sincerity commonly defined as an oscillation between irony and honesty, which some scholars perceive as synonymous with the term metamodern. Yet, they are almost always associated with each other; such resolution is imprecise. According to Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker the scholars who lay the groundwork for it: Metamodernism is the reaction after the postmodern epoch. Metamodern, similar to new sincerity, is an oscillation, the unfortunate negotiation between two opposing poles. Undoubtedly, as a new trend or a new cultural paradigm emerges to succeed its predecessor, the majority of the new generation of artists, academics, the populace, and such will embody the ideologies and characteristics of the cultural shift knowingly or not, that signify a variation of a new world. Bo Burnham, an artist, and comedian have inevitably personified the qualities. With that said, the paper will examine the essence of metamodernism and whether Bo Burnham's 'Inside' exemplifies the phenomenon's characteristics.
