As I define it, skeptical modernism is supposed to be a form of modernism. It responds to post-modernism, but by translating its critiques into modernist critiques instead of taking them on their own terms. A post-modernist might say that this doesn’t properly respond to post-modernism. You seem to have said as much in a comment below and I’ll respond there. On the other hand, metamodernism would probably either call itself both modernistt and post-modernist or neither or somewhere in between.
Skeptical Modernism holds that post-modernism only partially deconstructed modernism, so there is no need to reconstruct it. We can use whatever remains. On the other hand, metamodernism attempts a reconstruction.
Plus skeptical modernism is centered on philosophy, while meta-modernism seems to center on art.
It’s very different.
As I define it, skeptical modernism is supposed to be a form of modernism. It responds to post-modernism, but by translating its critiques into modernist critiques instead of taking them on their own terms. A post-modernist might say that this doesn’t properly respond to post-modernism. You seem to have said as much in a comment below and I’ll respond there. On the other hand, metamodernism would probably either call itself both modernistt and post-modernist or neither or somewhere in between.
Skeptical Modernism holds that post-modernism only partially deconstructed modernism, so there is no need to reconstruct it. We can use whatever remains. On the other hand, metamodernism attempts a reconstruction.
Plus skeptical modernism is centered on philosophy, while meta-modernism seems to center on art.