So, What is Hypermodernity?

Hypermodernity (Academic Definition)
There can be a profound lack of integration between the past and the present since:
1. What happened necessarily took place under "lesser" circumstances than now, which generates a fundamentally separate context.
2. Artefacts from the past superabundantly clutter the cultural landscape and are seamlessly reused to generate an even greater superabundance from which individuals are unable to discern original intent or meaning.
Hypermodernity (also called "Super modernity") differs from Modernity in that it has even more commitment to reason and to an ability to improve individual choice and freedom. Modernity merely held out the hope of reasonable change while continuing to deal with a historical set of issues and concerns; hypermodernity posits that things are changing so quickly that history is not a reliable guide. The positive changes of hypermodernity are supposedly witnessed through rapidly expanding wealth, better living standards, medical advances, and so forth. Individuals and cultures that benefit directly from these things can feel that they are pulling away from natural limits that have always constrained life on Earth. But the negative effects also can be seen as leading to a soulless homogeneity as well as to accelerated discrepancies between different classes and groups.
Post modernity differs here in that it rejects the idea of "reasonable change" while at the same time accepting that the past and its artefacts have as much value as the present. The value is primarily expressed through provisional constructs that have no lasting meaning; we cannot discern truth but we can play with the nonsense. Post modernity is meant to describe a condition of total emergence from Modernity and its faith in progress and improvement in empowering the individual.
Key Features:
Key features include the belief that every aspect of the human experience, can be controlled and manipulated by humanity’s ability to understand through science, knowledge, technology and biology.
It is the step beyond post - post modernism.
Key Theorists:
Gilles Lipovestsky and Sebastian Charles appear to be the main theorists developing the idea.
How could you use these in ideas?
It could easily be used in analysis of texts from a scholarly approach. As post modernism is such a broad subject, exploring other categories could be of valuable insight.
Reading list:
Works by Gilles Lipovestsky and Sebastian Charles