Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Rowman & Littlefield Int . 2017

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.

“If you’re in the market for a slick, shiny new aesthetic of the post-post or the meta-, you won’t find it here – but you won’t find it anywhere else, either, because it doesn’t exist. If, however, you genuinely want to understand the “sticky mess” (in Jörg Heiser’s phrase) that the new cultural practices are in the very process of emerging from, then you owe it to yourself to give this volume your fullest attention.”
— Brian McHale
“Metamodernism is the best collection of essays on our time’s most notable cultural development: the turning of postmodernism into something else. The project’s heart is van den Akker and Vermeulen’s 2008 milestone essay “Notes on Metamodernism,” which beats across a volume bringing together Alison Gibbons, Lee Konstantinou, Josh Toth, James MacDowell, Raoul Eshelman, and other distinguished critics of the contemporary.”
— Christian Moraru

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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