The webzine Notes on Metamodernism ran from 2009 to 2016. It was part of a long term interdisciplinary transnational research project documenting developments in twenty-first century culture that could no longer be explained in terms of the postmodern, but needed to be conceived of by another critical discourse – metamodernism. Notes on Metamodernism was founded in May 2009 by myself and Robin van den Akker and edited together with Nadine Fessler, Hila Shachar, Luke Turner and Alison Gibbons. In its seven year run, the webzine featured around fifty critics and theorists from a range of backgrounds, writing about trends and tendencies in current affairs, network culture, contemporary architecture, design, fashion, art, music, literature, theatre, performance, photography, film and television, and theory. The webzine reached hundreds thousands of readers, has been featured in popular media globally, is indexed by most national and research libraries, and is included in various citation metrics including google scholar. This is Notes on Metamodernism‘s archive.

As Notes on Metamodernism’s grew in contributors and readers, it was accompanied by increasingly many academic publications, a number of academic conferences, as well as, excitingly, critical exchanges on cultural and political platforms, exhibitions on fairs, in musea and in galleries, and plays in theatres. To name but one example the editors were intricately involved in and of which we remain today particularly proud: Metamodernism: The return of History, an international symposium at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2014, which brought together thinkers, artists and writers from across the political spectrum, such as Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Francis Fukuyama, Jorg Heiser, Haznae Bouazza, Camille de Toledo, Jonas Staal, Nina Power, Ewald Engelen, Zihni Ozdil, Adam Thirlwell, Sarah Rifky, and Michel Bauwens.

In the years since Notes on Metamodernism published its last article the number of publications and conferences has amassed and metamodernism has become an academic - and popular - discourse in its own right. If we are to believe google scholar, at the time of writing there are well over fifteen hundred scholarly engagements with metamodernism. Rutgers University librarian Katie Elson Anderson has put together a select bibliography of those texts that address metamodernism exclusively, which can be found here. Alongside Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons I further edited a collection of essays and am currently working with them towards a number of monographs. Esteemed colleagues in Britain and the Netherlands put together an AHRC funded network and published a special issue, whilst over in the USA the American Book Review devoted a number to metamodernism.