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Metamodernism 

A cultural paradigm created from the outcome of postmodernism and the Vikaas Rule. When deconstruction of any individual concept or symbol occurs, instead of rejecting a concept through irony or nihilism, a new synthesis occurs between the deconstructed points (referred to as poles) by understanding that both aspects of the deconstruction are true at the same time, even if they seemingly contradict.

Following this general practice, the synthesis is created using dialetheism, or rather, the understanding that negations of concepts can be as true as the statement itself. Using this concept, irony and sincerity can be combined into a new artform, creating what some describe as new sincerity. Thus, it's a rejection of modernity and postmodernity, realism and nihilism. Instead, it forges a new path of recontextualization.
Metamodernism is the logical outcome to a philosophy which is based on the deconstruction of principles created from a philosophy that constructed those principles in the first place. My rapidly degenerating sense of humor makes a lot more sense then

Metamodernism 

Circular or spiraling movement adding dimensions, seen in the 21st C arts movement after postmodernsim.

Alternatives: orthomodernism and paramodernism

Coined by N.L. 2010
"I write in a metamodernist style."

"The author was metamodern."

"That guy who came up with metajournalism as an explanation for this current trend is pretty cool."

"Modernism black, Postmodernism white, Meta is the new grey!"

"ABC-XYZ is modernism as postmodernism is AYB-CZX, as metamodernism is ZYX-CBA"

"It doesnt meta anway."

metamodernism 

The idea that tangibility is a structure-of-feeling.
Metamodernism is a discrete social-theorem in which feeling is comprised of pieces of-tangibility.
metamodernism by metawave February 21, 2022

metamodernism 

A paradigm that Marxism is an incomplete critique of capitalism due to the circumstance that it is unable to stop social deconstructionism.
Metamodernism refutes Derrida by arguing that deconstructionism isn't 'true' Marxism.
metamodernism by zanderfin December 13, 2019

metamodernism 

The idea that the observer is an enclosed system; while the observation is an open system;

That the observation is OUTSIDE of the observer;

Furthermore metamodernism proffers that the open system constitutes the closed system.
Metamodernism is a differentiation of Hume.
metamodernism by fightfacilities December 24, 2020

left-hand metamodernism 

A meta-theory of the self-imago (self-image) in which the conscious is oriented to be emergent from sentiment.

Meta-idealism of the avant-garde.
Left-hand metamodernism argues that self-image (subjective irony) is emergent from sentiment.
left-hand metamodernism by metawave February 19, 2019
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pajama casual 

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.
We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.
pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020
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