Greg Dember

Democracy in action 👇

I am mortified for this mother and worried for her daughter. And for all of us.

You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder's movie about Elizabeth Holmes) was soooo great! There's not much I can say about it without revealing spoilers, but the one comment I CAN make is that even the score was incredible and was a huge part of turning it from a straight-up documentary into a *film*.

As a GenXer, I have plenty of my own things to complain about in generational discourse, but to be fair to Boomers, why does everybody seem to forget that they were the original counterculture when they were young? The discourse treats them like some kind of 1940s grandmas and grandpas.

Sir, you forgot "hat."

One of my (many) Roman empires is just how frequently I bump into art & culture that oozes metamodern sensibility. This one from the NYT review of Cameron Winter’s Live @ Carnegie Hall album. Paging @gregdember.bsky.social!

"We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that stops all payments to insurance companies." So.... Medicare For All?

Are British people ever named "Tyler" ?

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)

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

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

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?

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.

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

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."

I was today years old...

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

First ever live performance by Billy Bragg together with Wilco of the Mermaid Avenue project. www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

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!

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Dumb ends in 2028, and everybody knows that.

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.

I wrote about Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, #metamodern auto-fiction, Object Oriented Ontology and A24. whatismetamodern.com/film/marcel-...

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!

If they can do it, we can do it!

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

It's a sad day in Sunnydale.😢😢😢😢 deadline.com/2026/03/buff...

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.

Got my author copies of this today!