‘Eva Lewitt’ | Frieze 194 (April 2018), p.

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism

Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Rowman & Littlefield Int. 2017

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social, technological and economic developments, the volume provides both a map and an itinerary of today’s metamodern cultural landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric Jameson’s canonical arguments about the waning of historicity, affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context. In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the metamodern cultural moment.

TRANSLATIONS:

Metamodernismo: Historicidad, afecto y profundidad después del posmodernismo | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by Joaqim Feijoo Perez. Mutatis Mutandis, 2023

Metamodernizm: Postmodernizm Sonrası Tarihsellik, Duyuşsallık ve Derinlik | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by Aykut Dalak. Tun Kitap, 2020.

Метамодернизм: Историчность, аффект и глубина после постмодернизма | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by V.M. Lipka. Ripol, 2019; 2nd Edition 2020; 3rd Edition 2021.

‘Periodizing the 2000s, or the emergence of metamodernism’ | Co-authored with Robin van den Akker. Metamodernism: Historicity, affect, depth. Edited by Alison Gibbons, R. van den Akker and T. Vermeulen. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, pp. 1-22.

‘Metamodern depth, or depthiness’ | Metamodernism: Historicity, affect, depth. Edited by Alison Gibbons, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, pp. 147-150

'We need to talk about Dolphins' | The Standard Book of Noun-Verb Exhibition Grammar. Edited by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk. Onamatopee, 2017, pp.

‘Groucho Marxism’ | Solution 275: Communism. Edited by Joshua Simon and Ingo Niermann. Sternberg Press, 2017, pp.

‘Contraction and expansion’ | Authenticity? Observations and artistic strategies in the post-digital age. Edited by Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendriks. Valiz, 2017, pp. 19-27.

‘Outside in, or: forms looking for feelings’ | Grit Richter - The Big Easy. Edited by Grit Richter. Wald und Wiese Verlag, Hamburg, 2017, pp. 12-17

‘Retracing our steps’ | Esther Kläs Linda Matalon. Edited by Moritz Wilborn & Iris Kadel. Kadel Wilborn Galerie, Dusseldorf, 2017, 1 p.

‘Susan Philipsz’ | Frieze 186 (April 2017), p.

‘Postmodernism’ | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Eric Rothenbuhler. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp.

‘Poststructuralism’ | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Eric Rothenbuhler. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp.

‘Todd Haynes: with the love of the lens’ | Directory of World Cinema: American Independent Vol. 3. Edited by John Berra. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 138-141

‘Todd Solondz: in search of lost time’ | Directory of World Cinema: American Independent Vol. 3. Edited by John Berra. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 250-254

‘In hotel lobbies - the jungle!’ | Matthias Bitzer - Magically, mystically charged picture cosmos. Edited by Augusta Joyce. Distanz, 2016, pp. 31-33.

‘Large Rohrsach Test’ | Keith Tyson: Large Field Array. Edited by in E. Neilson. Zabludowicz Art Projects, 2016, pp. 58-59.

‘Ypres Wild Berries: on the photography of Eugene von Gundlach’ | Diango Hernandez: Theoretical Beach. Distanz Berlin, 2016. Edited by Stefanie Kreuzer, pp. 50-59

‘Toil and Trouble’ | TANK Magazine 8:7 (2016), pp. 118-122

'Ironie en post-ironie' | Metropolis M vol. 2016, iss. 3 (2016), p 93.

Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne
Co-authored with Robin van Den Akker. Translated by Elias Wagner. TEXTEM Verlag 2015

Während sich viele Kommentatoren darüber einig sind, dass wir die Koordinaten der Postmoderne verlassen haben, herrscht wenig Einigkeit darüber, mit welchem Modell sich die Gegenwart erfassen und verändern lässt.

Mit ihren Überlegungen zur Metamoderne spüren Robin van den Akker und Timotheus Vermeulen einer Haltung nach, die die ironische Distanz gegenüber Idealismus, Romantik und Realpolitik überwindet, ohne die Errungenschaften postmoderner Skepsis leichtfertig preiszugeben.

TRANSLATIONS:

Poznámky k metamodernizmu |Co-authored with Robin van Den Akker. Translated by Terezia Klasova. Edice Psi Verlag 2017