Prospects of the Metamodern

What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?

by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

Around 580 CE, Cassiodorus, a former Roman statesman turned Christian monk, authored an influential grammar, De Orthographia. Written while Cassiodorus was already in his nineties, the work aimed to integrate ancient traditions into what he termed “modern culture,” while deliberately discarding what was no longer relevant.…