The Influence of Metamodernist Attitudes on Contemporary Cultural Theory and Philosophy: Aesthetic and Sociocultural Aspects

The aim of the article is to identify the influence of metamodernism on modern philosophical concepts of culture, aesthetic ideas of modernity, embodied in specific cultural phenomena. The problem of the research is the need for a philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of metamodernism, which is due to the influence of aesthetic and ethical attitudes of metamodernism on the sociocultural reality. In the theory and philosophy of culture, as well as in social philosophy, there are discussions about the devaluation and loss of relevance of postmodern discourse and its replacement by postpostmodernist theories. Among the pleiad of postmodern theories, metamodernism is the most prominent and discussed in Russian social-humanitarian knowledge and cultural practice, which is due to its popularity beyond the boundaries of theoretical academic discourse. The article identifies the interrelated attitudes of metamodernism: oscillation, postirony, historicity, affect, depth, identity, authenticity, new sincerity, neo-romanticism, superhybridism. Their influence on the modern theory and philosophy of culture, as well as on artistic culture is determined. The system of metamodernism attitudes is tested in the analysis of works of culture. The most obvious realization of metamodernism program can be observed in narrative works: films, literary texts, performances, installations, theatrical productions, a series of paintings or photographs. The viewer performs oscillation when observing a work extended in time and space. Oscillation is an alternating immersion into different states and experiences of different affects. The article identifies and describes the relationship between metamodernist and postmodernist cultural discourses.

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