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Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Gets really weird when you start talking about comic book eras.

Golden Age - 1938 to 1956 (18 years)
Silver Age - 1956 to 1970 (14 years)
Bronze Age - 1970 to 1985 (15 years)

Here's where it gets fun:

Modern Age - 1985 to Present (40 years)

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Really the modern age should go from 1985 - 2011 for dc and marvel it would be 2018

Then the next agent would be new 52 for 15 years and fresh start for marvel.

Then rebirth for dc after that in 2016

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There needs to be one era for 1985 up to the 1990s speculation crash, then another for that era, and a 3rd post speculation era, but I'm not sure how to break it out.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah you make a good point. the 90s could have a fun name like the too many pouches era.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wasn't there a Dark Age after Bronze? The one where everyone was scowling the whole time and the stories were so tryhard edgy you could use a typical Youngblood issue as a letter opener?

(Basically the "pouches" era the sibling comments talk about. Rob Liefeld's contributions to fashion will never be forgotten.)

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

With square gun barrels. :)

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I like how contemporary is more modern than modern.

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I always feel like a total dweeb using "contemporary," but my desire for accuracy wins out every time.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Those aren’t the only two terms in contention, unfortunately, because academics love a pissing contest. Middle fingers to the term I personally hate, “cosmodernism.”

[-] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Are atanmodernism and cscmodernism a thing?

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Modern is defined as the current year of whatever writer coined the term. So after writing about the "modern" day for a century...

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.

[-] ksigley@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

There really is an xkcd for everything.

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Especially when the periods defined by these terms are often different time frames depending on the field.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The word “modern “means different things in different contexts. This comic is making a joke about mixing them.

For example, in the context of Art History, both of the terms Modern and Modernism are typically capitalized to make the distinction between the colloquial form.

[-] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

i propose we use skibidi here

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