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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

15 in no particular order Atlanta Community Six Feet Under Mr. Robot Severance Parks and Recreation Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul Furious Hacks White Lotus Bojack Horseman New Girl Modern Family Girls Shameless (U.S. version)

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When a cat drinks water, the world is at peace.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here is a video conversation I hosted with three authors of metamodern fiction: Tope Folarin, Daniel L. Garner and Peter Clarke. Each in his own way combines a playful experimentalism with a caring stance towards their characters. youtu.be/kmM67SbhXEI

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Metamodern Fiction w/Tope Folarin, Peter Clarke & Daniel Garner

YouTube video by What Is Metamodern?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This 4-session exploration of metamodernism and the music of Sufjan Stevens begins this Sunday and I am one of the co-leaders of it. Link to more details in the first comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFv...

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GREG DEMBER'S METAMODERNISM AND MY IMPOSSIBLE SOUL

YouTube video by Philosophy Portal

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Uggh. Got an email I originally thought was legit asking my approval to spotlight my book on Goodreads. Then I noticed some sus details. So a scam? But, dang, the message included some impressive specificity. That's just AI, right? I'm not passing up an opportunity by ignoring it, right? RIGHT?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on AI writers, since, admittedly, I DO remove ums from recorded video conversations that I share. Although at least I de-um by hand.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For 4 Sundays in September, I will be co-leading an online mini-course / group exploration of Sufjan Stevens and metamodernism, inspired by the multi-author volume My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens. philosophyportal.online/my-impossibl...

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Full course deepening investigation of the cultural condition of metamodernism — Philosophy Portal

Learn contemporary cultural theory of metamodernism with authors of the first canonical academic text on the music of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What foods "taste" like the color they are to you? For me... Oranges taste orange Blueberries taste blue Tomatoes taste red Corn tastes yellow Purple grapes taste purple Pinto beans taste brown Cauliflower tastes white Peas taste green

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An MD, a former captain of a high school football team, a Rhodes Scholar, an American, a Muslim and a Senate candidate walked into a bar. The bartender said "Hello, Abdul El-Sayed."

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hot take: The celebration of Jimothy is metamodern. I mean, duh.

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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I don't understand 80% of what many of you share about your hobbies, hyperfixations and fandoms, but I want you to know that I still love how happy they make you. Your dorky joy is palpable and delightful.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As a Yale alum, I truly expected Yale to show more courage against the MAGA administration than it has so far. Here's hoping for a turn around!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In other words – and I'm not the first to say this but it bears emphasizing – The Swamp.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Here's me talking about metamodernism primarily to a Greek audience on the fabulous Ideonio podcast. I am their first non-Greek guest and you can see on the youtube page that the comments are all in Greek! The hosts were really exuberant and sharp at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnSu...

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What Comes After Postmodernism? | Greg Dember on Metamodernism | Ideonio Podcast

YouTube video by Ideonio

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Which AI tool would be best for creating a video of Don Trump throwing hamburgers at a newly restored Kennedy Center wall?

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What Is Metamodern? @what-is-metamodern.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance about metamodernism and performance. Edited by Tom Drayton (@miserchristmas.bsky.social) and Luke Turner. Details in link. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0yxq...

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That's not less-than-perfect writing. That's mindless ChatGPT slop utilizing formulaic structures to convey things the reader already knows.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Listen to your Spidey Sense! Don’t fall for the grift! In this excellent video essay, Douglas Rushkoff gives an account of an AI publishing scandal that he got tangled up in and humbly examines his own tendencies that initially led him into supporting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3f...

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Spidey Sense in the Age of AI

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dumb ends in 2028, and everybody knows that.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

On the substance El-Sayed is right, but to be fair, I think he's the one who pivots to a talking point—ducking Cain's question—and it only looks strong to our side. To anyone who needs convincing, it would have been stronger for El-Sayed to directly address Cain's provocations about immigration.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Does anybody have a link to the video of Elon acting like a drugged-out freak in China. I saw the posts about it earlier but was not in a place where I could stop and actually watch and now I can't find them no matter how far back I scroll!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If they can do it, we can do it!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book The Rather Predictable Travelogue of Kavalier and Clay

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thinking of starting a side-hustle consulting business in which I teach podcasters and influencers when to say "you and I" and when to say "you and me."

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I like movies that have a score that sounds like a group of hippie drummers were locked in a monastery, fed healthy but tasty food and then trained in precision, understatement and implied melody.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Some kind of joke built around: "If you take the eyes out of Idjit, you get DJT" I'm not exactly sure how to make it work, but I think there is something there.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

First day of the Popular Culture Association Conference in Atlanta! I'll be presenting "Metamodern Cringe Comedy and The Chair Company" on Friday.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Well this is exciting! I was interviewed about metamodernism on Australia's public broadcast network, the ABC. The host, David Rutledge, was really fun to talk to and I thought he did a great job of guiding and shaping the conversation. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Sincerity, irony and metamodernism - ABC listen

The supposed evils of postmodern culture have been endlessly catalogued: moral relativism, the loss of shared values, ironic detachment, a pathological aversion to sincerity, and all rooted in a philo...

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Project Hail Mary is a delightful and inspiring science-fiction, save-the-world, animatronic, Ryan-Gosling-vehicle, metamodern buddy movie. Definitely recommended. And people I went to see it with who had read the original Andy Weir novel loved the adaptation.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

YES! OBAA works as a Left-sympathetic film not by presenting an irrefutable case for Left ideology but by telling a human story about revolutionary Left people, including their flaws and failings. It treats revolutionaries as subjects not representatives. To me, this is metamodern political cinema.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Every TV series that is about professors at a college is PRETTY GOOD but also slightly flawed in some way or other.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

As an editor, this whole project was a lot of fun for me, as was this recorded Zoom gathering to celebrate the release of the book.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Got my author copies of this today!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Making the playlist for "walking in music" for tomorrow's Sufjan Stevens book release Zoom event.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We will be celebrating the release of MY IMPOSSIBLE SOUL: THE METAMODERN MUSIC OF SUFJAN STEVENS on Zoom on FRIDAY, MARCH 6 at 11am Pacific time. Message me for Zoom deets.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

MAGA is self-worship by proxy, with Trump as the receptacle of a communal projected self adulation, and then from Trump at the apex, a trickle-down inherited over-valuation through the hierarchy of sycophantic authoritarian loyalists.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If I were a cat, I'd start a newsletter called The Scratching Post.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Uggghh.... thinking hard about my friend Ross who was my best friend at the end of high school and then unexpectedly died young at 35 (which was quite a while ago because I'm old.) So much in the world, good and bad, that he missed out on witnessing or participating in.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Does this analogy work? Kid Rock is to Bad Bunny as Bobby Riggs is to Billy Jean King

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If you’re not yet addicted to Kareem Rahma’s short-form interview show, you should be! And either way, you should read my article about what makes it so marvelously metamodern. whatismetamodern.com/social-media...

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A Metamodern Take on Kareem Rahma’s Subway Takes

Kareem Rahma's metamodern interviews with subway riders.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The MAGA understanding of the 2nd Amendment is that it protects the right of MAGAs, whether they belong to law enforcement or are civilians, to use guns to kill the people they dislike, whether they are in law enforcement or civilians.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The ICE budget is welfare for pardoned January 6 convicts and other aspiring criminals and bullies.

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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Getting ridiculed by the neighborhood dads for your crappy driving skills has got to sting pretty hard for these kinds of guys.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Waste and Fraud! Waste and Fraud!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains

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