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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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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/06/2026

I'm thrilled to share a Call for Papers for 'Metamodern Performance, Now!'—a special issue of Studies in Theatre & Performance, which I'll be editing alongside the brilliant @miserchristmas.bsky.social. 🎭 Abstracts of 250-300 words invited by 2 August. Full CFP here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0yxq...

CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE OF
STUDIES IN THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

METAMODERN PERFORMANCE, NOW!

EDITED BY TOM DRAYTON & LUKE TURNER
ABSTRACTS DUE: 2ND AUGUST 2026

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Boys’ bedtime tonight. They’re tired, so drift as soon as put down. I quietly leave the room and close the door. Hear four year old whisper: ‘Cowabunga’ 🐢

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Been rewatching the IT films, and can understand why Welcome To Derry needs to up the scare-factor - because they’ll never be able to recreate the magic of that first Losers Club. Those films aren’t about Pennywise, but that extraordinary cast portraying that ka-tet. Lightning in a bottle.

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Seasonal scented candle companies are missing a trick by not developing a ‘pumpkin being slightly charred by tea lights’ scent. I’d bulk order.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This was a fun conversation about metamodernism that somehow was non-linear and rambling while also covering the basics pretty well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiaS...

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#4 Greg Dember: Metamodernism and the Defence of Interiority

YouTube video by The Living Philosophy

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just got up to date with @rangedtouch.bsky.social’s Just King Things podcast on a weeks long binge of the 29 episodes covering 29 of the 41 @stephenking.bsky.social books I’ve read. It’s been a journey, and amazing to feel part of Michael and Cameron’s seemingly never ending journey to the Tower

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Is culture still bad for you? In 2020, ‘Culture is bad for you’ was published. To mark the updated second edition, co-author @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, reflects on what’s happened to the cultural sector since then for @artsprofessional.co.uk: www.artsprofessional.co.uk/feature/is-c... #booksky

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Is culture still bad for you? - Arts Professional

In 2020, ‘Culture is bad for you’ was published. As its second edition is about to be released, one of its authors, Dave O’Brien, thinks now is a good moment to reflect on what’s happened to the cultu...

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I've been talking to @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social and @billwearsties.bsky.social about the current trend in televised sci-fi towards retrofuturism and alt-history over stories set in our actual *future*, and why imagining the future might be harder these days... www.denofgeek.com/tv/why-has-s...

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Why Has Sci-Fi TV Stopped Imagining Our Future?

Once, shows like Star Trek predicted new tech and a boldly going future; now, Severance, Silo and even Trek are looking to the past.

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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The university watchdog is braced for "cold spots" as institutions cut courses and staff in a bid to balance the books "...individual decisions might stack up to suddenly realising that we've got no modern foreign languages in a particular part of the country" @matildamartin.bsky.social reports

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Universities Watchdog Braces For 'Cold Spots' As Courses Get Cut To Save Money

The university watchdog is beginning to look at potential 'cold spots' emerging as institutions make redundancies and close courses in a bid to bal...

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 09/03/2025

"Each of the administrative burdens that we are confronted with on a daily basis might seem small on their own but cumulatively they amount to a ‘mountain of small things’ that is killing academia"

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today marks 10 years (!) since I started teaching in HE 🫠

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/03/2025

oh wow everything is bad in the US, lucky for us that we're Europeans and things are going better here, now to take a big sip of coffee and

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Chris Megson @chris-megson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s 20 years since Howard Barker published his bracing polemic on theatre and death, and the necessity of tragedy in a culture of relentless death denial. It’s a wonderful read: taut, austere, a vision of the inexhaustible theatrical image.

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Amazing! Hope it was interesting/useful/not-too-dull

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Eleanor Hill @iameleanorhill.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Spending the afternoon with a hot chocolate and @miserchristmas.bsky.social’s Symposium.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 23/02/2025

I know we all love a dose of hopium, especially now. But the take, which I see all across here, that the far right was defeated in Germany tonight because 80% of Germans voted for other parties is very misleading and unhelpful. Understanding this really matters. 🧵

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Also, the AfD is NOT the party of the youth. The (new) Left did significantly better than AfD among 18-24 year olds. Die Linke is also NOT the left-wing equivalent of AfD. They are more old-school social democratic than communist. Even their "populism" is debatable.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/02/2025

With an 84% turnout, the AfD's 20% of the vote are in fact 16.5% of the registered vote Add to that all those who can't vote for various reasons, many of whom would be directly harmed by the AfD (and others to be fair) and you see where an alliance can be created instead of moving ever to the right

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As Germans head for the polls today, the stakes could not be higher for Germany‘s future and Europe. My in-depth analysis on Merz‘ huge mistakes, but also some hope that the centre will get its act together in light of what happened since Munich.

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The far right rising

Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

the utopian ideals of a participatory web are enmeshed with the entanglements of worldbuilding within capitalism.

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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My first book, The Populist Style, is finally out! 🎉✨ It is available in open access (direct link to the PDF: tinyurl.com/PopulistStyl...) and there is a 30% discount code (NEW30) for those who want to get a hardback copy (edin.ac/3WIe0Sr). Here's a summary of the book's key arguments: 1/25

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What Is Metamodern? @what-is-metamodern.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

People often mistakenly think metamodernism equals whatever ideology they support. Left can be MM, Right can be MM. Moderate, apolitical, anti-political can all be MM. Multi-perspectival can be MM, but MM is not at all inherently multi-perspectival.

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Gaming Democracy @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Yes it was a Nazi salute

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Already fed up of marking essays vomited up by GenAI. It’s insulting.

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Deluge is one of the best and most frightening things I’ve ever read - yet prescient in a way that’s completely believable. Felt like a map of the next 100 years. Wish it could be set as required reading.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Zuckerberg wants everyone to know he's done pretending he gives a shit about what people do on his platforms. Here's what happens next. www.garbageday.email/p/zuckerberg...

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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Absolutely brilliant article from @pennyred.bsky.social on folk heroes and Mangione. Wonder how long it is before one of us makes a musical out of this? I won’t bother as I bet there are several US versions already underway lauriepenny.substack.com/p/guilty-ple...

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Guilty Pleasures

Luigi Mangione and the making of a folk hero

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Daniel Bye @danielbye.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This morning two theatre companies (Freedom Studios and Coney) have announced their permanent closure. Both 'left' the National Portfolio in 2023 and have found the climate impossible since. Their statements are heartbreakingly similar. Without massive funding reform many more will follow in 2025.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At @insidehighered.com I wrote about my concerns about this kind of technology as a threat to human instructional labor, but there's also potential pedagogical issues with introducing a 24/7 assistant that may actually hamper student learning and development.🧵 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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Great ready for faculty bot-ification

If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Can we just… call it in and end the year here?

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Liam Jarvis @liamjarvis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

5 x funded PhD Studentships are now available in The Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. To apply, follow this link: tinyurl.com/5h3nkyx2 (selecting the PTEQ funding route). Full details available here: www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

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Fergus Morgan @fergusmorgan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here is this week's issue of The Crush Bar, featuring a chat with writer and director Jack Bradfield. Poltergeist Theatre's Alice In Wonderland is at Brixton House now, and his play The Habits is arriving at Hampstead Theatre in February. thecrushbar.substack.com/p/devising-t...

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"Devising takes time, trust and money to get right."

Playwright, director and co-founder of company Poltergeist Theatre Jack Bradfield on Alice In Wonderland at Brixton House and The Habits at Hampstead Theatre. Plus: three shows to see next week.

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#theatresky. missed @dermotdaly.bsky.social and i chatting abt and experimenting with my play THE NEXT ONE HUNDRED YEARS at @miserchristmas.bsky.social Metamodern Theatre symposium? no fear. we are here! along with fab ppl. youtu.be/-spECIBfaTk?...

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Just caught up on a brill article by Antoine Simms at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social about the metamodernity of @a24movies.bsky.social's horror movies (including metamodern ghosts, metamodern jumps scares and - brilliantly - metamodern merchandise)! imaginaires.univ-reims.fr/index.php/im...

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A24 and Post-Horror: A Metamodern Studio for a Metamodern Cycle? | Imaginaires

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/12/2024

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

signs of influencer creep in the academy: one of the first lessons I learned as a contemporary academic was to "know my brand." akin to influencers, higher ed workers must align themselves within specialized frameworks that appeal to an invisible audience of many.

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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That intro music? The brilliant Dagen Smith composed it for my play Like Lions in 2018. Throughout 2024 they’ve been releasing one EP a month - there’s now 12 of these beauties - do check them out on Spotify! open.spotify.com/artist/5iTkY...

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Dagen Smith

Artist · 10 monthly listeners.

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Mark Ludmon @markludmon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If anyone’s intrigued by the concept of “metamodern theatre”, there’s now video on YouTube of last month’s Metamodern Theatre Symposium at the University of East London: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #theatre #metamodern

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Metamodern Theatre Symposium - YouTube

The Metamodern Theatre Symposium was held at The University of East London and online on 19.11.24 to launch the book Metamodernism in Contemporary British Th...

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Gaming Democracy @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Metamodern Theatre Symposium was held at The University of East London and online on 19.11.24 to launch @miserchristmas.bsky.social's book Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre. Every talk now available on YouTube. #TheatreSky #MetaSymp www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Metamodern Theatre Symposium - YouTube

The Metamodern Theatre Symposium was held at The University of East London and online on 19.11.24 to launch the book Metamodernism in Contemporary British Th...

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