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Robin van den Akker is Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University College Rotterdam.
Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University.
Timotheus Vermeulen is Associate Professor in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo.
Acknowledgements / 1. Periodising the 2000s, or, the emergence of metamodernism, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen / Section I: Historicity / 2. Metamodern Historicity, Robin van den Akker / 3. The metamodern, the quirky, and the challenge of categorization, James MacDowell / 4. Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction, Josh Toth / 5. Super-hybridity: Non-simultaneity, political power, and multipolar conflict, Jorg Heiser / 6. The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts, Sjoerd van Tuinen / Section II: Affect / 7. Metamodern Affect, Alison Gibbons / 8. Four Faces of Post-Irony, Lee Konstantinou / 9. Radical Defenselessness: A new sense of self in the work of David Foster Wallace, Nicoline Timmer / 10. Contemporary Autofiction and Affect, Alison Gibbons / 11. The Joke that Wasn’t funny anymore: Empathy in Contemporary Sitcoms, Gry Rustad and Kai Schwind / Section III: Depth / 12. Metamodern Depth or ‘Depthiness’, Timotheus Vermeulen / 13. Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility, Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk / 14. Between truth, sincerity and satire: Post-truth politics and the rhetoric of authenticity, Sam Browse / 15. Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing beauty and transcendence after postmodernism, Raoul Eshelman / Epilogue / 16. Thoughts on writing about art after postmodernism, James Elkins / References / Index / Contributor Information
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, Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor at The Ohio State University, Author of "Postmodernist Fiction" (1987) and "The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism" (2015)
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, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina
In 2002, Linda Hutcheon famously announced the end of postmodernism. What has been happening in the areas of arts, culture, aesthetics, and politics ever since? Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism provides an answer to this question. The book is truly impressive in terms of both its theoretical scope and the discussion of representative examples of metamodernism.
— Jan Alber, President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative
I hope this book becomes required reading for scholars and think tanks, or any students studying postmodernism and beyond, so we could at least adopt a common ‘language’ (as they describe it) to reduce the excessive redundancy and conict in academia and contemporary social thought. This is what the ‘principle of abstraction’ from computer science does, and is much needed in our cultural programming.
— The Abs-Tract Organization
Course Examples (a small sample only)
UK
Kings College London: Postmodernism and Beyond’ (3rd year, undergrad)
Goldsmiths, UCL: Music and Modernities (2nd year, Undergrad)
University of Surrey: Postmodernism and Beyond: The word and the World (3rd year, undergrad)
University of York: 21st Century American Fiction: Postmodern and Beyond (3rd year, undergrad)
Birkbeck: English Literary Modernism (Undergrad)
Northumbria: EL0509 - Modernism and Modernity
Nottingham Trent: Modernism and Modernity ENGL30414
Warwick: EN916 Modernism and Mythopoeia: Lawrence, Joyce and Yeats
USA
George Mason University: ENGH 660-001: American Modernism
University of California, Santa Barbara:*‘There is no Spoon: Metamodern performance and installation art’
UC, Davis: AHI 183C: MODERNISM IN FRANCE, 110B. Introduction to Modern Literary and Critical Theory (4)
University of Chicago:‘Modernisms and Repetition’ (Graduate Curriculum: Music History & Theory)
Pitzer College: ARHI 184 PO -Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art, ARHI 189 SC -European Modernism 1840-1940
University of Massachusetts, Boston:‘Studies in Fiction: The Global Contemporary’
Vanderbilt University:*‘Introduction to Literary Modernism: High, Cold, and Neo: Framing Modernism in the 20th and 21st Centuries’
Kansas State: ENGL 234 Modern Humanities
MDR
EL1230 Modern American Literature 176
GS1000 American Studies 1,617
EL1010 Literary Theory 734
FA2119 Modern Art 879
SSA026 Modernization 73
Keywords
Cultural Studies; Culture and Critical Theory; Philosophy; Critical Theory; Modernism; Postmodernism; Art; Literary Criticism; Comparative Literature; Theory; American Studies
Conferences
CSA, ACS, MLA, ASAP, ACLA, MHRA
Catalogues
Academic, Cultural Studies, Communication, Sociology, Philosophy