The narrative of science and irony in «Rick and Morty»: metamodernism vs postmodernism

Abstract

The article reveals how the ideas of metamodernism influence the phenomena of mass culture. As an example, the animated series "Rick and Morty" is analyzed in detail, where the mechanisms of work of metamodern humor, oscillations, "new sincerity", post-irony are revealed, the narrative of science is analyzed from the standpoint of metamodernism. A distinction is made between the irony of postmodernism and the irony of metamodernism. In the animated series, the swing from irony, parody and pastiche to sincerity and seriousness is carried out when representing the topics of raising children in an incomplete family, suppressing information about the ecological situation, aggressive colonialist policy, cultural trauma, globalism and capitalism, the status of science in modern society.