Postmodernism gave scholars license to doubt everything except its own doubting, and by the turn of the century that was delivering diminishing returns. So what comes after it? Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm makes the case for metamodernism as the way through, one that keeps what critique got right while reworking realism, social ontology, language, knowledge, and value. What if skepticism that cannot doubt itself is simply another dogma? What if “real” means little until you answer real as opposed to what? And what if value neutrality, that great methodological virtue, has been a value all along, one that cost the humanities much of their reason to matter?

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:47 – Why Every Scholar Needs Second Order Reflection
00:12:59 – Postmodernism’s Diminishing Returns
00:16:33 – The Metamodern Move
00:20:26 – The Real Duck: “Real” as a Contrastive Category
00:22:46 – Process Social Ontology: How Social Things Become Real
00:29:40 – Skepticism That Cannot Doubt Itself
00:34:47 – Value Neutrality Is Itself a Value
01:06:45 – Metamodernism Meets Critical Realism