Metamodernism cannot be apprehended by postmodernism because its agenda is antithetical to its paradigmatic predecessor, and because even when it uses compositional methods endemic to modernism or postmodernism is does so with an entirely different ambition.
Because an emboldened deeply conservative right wing fears that these scientific facts will lead to government action, new constraints on pollution from dirty industries, or international cooperation - policies it finds antithetical to its base.
Some see taking the movement back to its Stonewall roots as antithetical to its forward strides to the capitol, while the proponents of gay "power to the people" believe the lobbyist action has moved gays one step forward and ten steps back.
And while the book jackets of so many contemporary authors remind the reader that the author "lives in New York City," Mr. Updike found the place, with its endless distractions, antithetical to the writing life.
It is antithetical to the purpose of the Human Rights Law to exempt public schools from its mandate... Discrimination is "all the more invidious" when practiced by state run entities.
It seems antithetical, maybe even heretical.
