Greg Dember

“Metamodernism is a sensibility motivated primarily by a need
to safeguard the individual’s interior, subjectivebfelt experience
against the potential degradations of postmodern ironic relativism and modernist reductionism; and, also from the ontological inertia of pre-modern tradition. It is expressed through
and is an influence upon cultural artifacts found in areas such
as the visual arts, television, film, music, literature, design and
even philosophy, religion, and politics. As an episteme, metamodernism is periodized historically, beginning around or a
little before 2000, and also can be conceived of independent of
chronology.”
― Greg Dember, Say Hello to Metamodernism!: Understanding Today's Culture of Ironesty, Felt Experience, and Empathic Reflexivity