So I've been kind of fascinated with the idea of post-postmodernism lately. I used to just blow it off, because the name was too meta for my taste. But it is actually a cool concept: a return to the unity fractured by postmodernism. The best, most succinct definition I found was "Age of Synthesis"[source 1].

This is different than flat-out modernism (which also claims to unify), because it is more aware of itself as a construction, "aware of its own failures, insubstantiality, and secondariness" [source 2]. Also different from the modern industrial notion of unity, the "Age of Synthesis" unity is more natural, traditional, and "lyrical"--a reaction to technological disillusionment.