An essay on metamodernity in three parts. Part II. New sincerity and care for being
Axiosphere of the era “The new romanticism of metamodernism is the romanticism of a generation that grew up in the 90s on a diet of “The Simpsons” and “South Park”, for which postmodern irony and cynicism are something taken for granted, present by default in the very way of seeing the world, and, despite this, or rather precisely because of this, striving for sincere and constructive, progressive self-realization” [1]. - these words by E.S.