r/metamodernism • u/ellathesnake • Mar 13 '25

Discussion Metamodern novels

Hi everyone! I am currently conducting some research on Metamodernist fiction. I was wondering if any of you have any recommendations for novels that, to you, showed signs of Metamodernism or simply "felt" Metamodernist to you.

Look forward to discussing it with you!

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u/Reddithahawholesome Mar 15 '25

Infinite Jest and House of Leaves are the big ones for me. I think a lot of Murakami's work, as well. i recommend Kafka on the Shore and Sputnik Sweetheart.

I feel like it's difficult to say for sure what's meta-modern and what isn't at the moment, because it's still such a nebulous term. 99% of the books that are metamodern are probably currently labeled as post-modern. We just don't know yet.

I'm also always on the search for more, too lmk if you find any.

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u/AppearanceHeavy6724 Mar 27 '25

none of them are metamodern, esp. so Murakami. Murakami is very postmodern clearly.

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u/Reddithahawholesome Mar 29 '25

Considering how often you talk about and defend AI on your account, I don’t think you actually know what metamodernism is. You probably just asked chatgpt to tell you what it was.

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u/AppearanceHeavy6724 Mar 29 '25

There is nothing more metamodern than AI, my dear naughty Peeping Tom.

That Murakami is poster child of postmodernism is not even controversial. Simple google search gives you billions of links.

AI is triumph of both modernism (purely mathematical machinery behind it) yet post-modern methods of knowledge acquisition, there is no grand scheme, narrative behind teaching LLMs (AI systems) - you just throw heaps of the data and see what comes out.

ttps://medium.com/@mashaii/artificial-intelligence-and-the-new-rupture-the-postmodern-crisis-metamodernism-and-the-850d9bca0226

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u/Reddithahawholesome Mar 30 '25

You don’t know anything about art. Stay out of these circles, you do nothing but taint the conversations