Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Master of Liberal Studies Theses Spring 2018 The etM amodern Man Nathan R. Arrowsmith Rollins College,
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[email protected]. 1 2 Abstract The first time I heard the term, “Metamodern Age,” I was actively involved in a discussion about the various themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The setting was a Master of Liberal Studies class (Rollins College, MLS 604), entitled “Modernity” taught by Dr. Tom Cook. It was October of 2015. Frankenstein, also known as The Modern Prometheus, is a masterpiece and a solid sample from the Modern Era. Following approximately fifty years of Postmodern Era sludge, we are now in what could be identified as the Metamodern Era. Our Modernity class speculated confidently that the current Age of Metamodernism is a positive societal rebuild in the terrifying wake of 9/11. I strong identify with metamodernism, as opposed to postmodernism, and believe that the Metamodern Age began to mature as the internet became culturally dominant in the 1990s, prior to 9/11.