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.

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‘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.

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