Notes on metamodernism

Notes on metamodernism is a webzine documenting trends and tendencies across aesthetics and culture that can no longer be understood by a postmodern vernacular but require another idiom - one that we have come to call metamodernism. Written by academics and critics from around the globe, Notes on metamodernism features observations on anything from the Berlin art scene to US cinema, from London fashion shows to network cultures.

Politics

‘The border is everywhere’: excursions in the politics of identity

by Zoe Anderson on May 10, 2012 •

However hard people try, the undoing of borders seems inevitable; the fragility of boundaries, obvious. Indeed, the ‘literal’ (physical, geo-political, national) border is, in many ways, merely a proxy for the control of...

Art / Exhibitions

Discussing Metamodernism

by Editorial on Mar 26, 2012 •

Postmodernism is over. As global warming, the credit crunch and political instabilities are rapidly taking us beyond that so prematurely proclaimed ‘End of History’, the postmodern culture of relativism, irony and pastiche, too,...

Theory

What is metamodernism?

by Editorial on Jul 15, 2010 •

The ecosystem is severely disrupted, the financial system is increasingly uncontrollable, and the geopolitical structure has recently begun to appear as unstable as it has always been uneven. This triple crisis infuses doubt and inspires...

Latest entries

Art Photography as Metamodern Alchemy: the work of Stuart Bailes by Luke Turner on May 9, 2012 • The history of photography carries with it a history of abstraction. Since its inception, artists have used the medium to transform, to lift loose the appearances of the world, and to present...	Art / In the press ArtInfo discusses metamodernism with Timotheus Vermeulen by Editorial on Apr 18, 2012 • Alexander Forbes interviews gallerist Tanja Wagner and cultural philosopher Timotheus Vermeulen: In any moment, it’s nearly impossible to locate or isolate shifts, changes in tendencies, whether social, aesthetic, or otherwise—banal critical statement...
Music / Theory Defining the rootless label: a romantically ironic appeal by Hannah Ebben on Apr 5, 2012 • This article deals with a thought process which I have tried to capture. For a long time I have wished for a definition of Asperger’s Syndrome, a desire based on my own...	Politics Questioning Multiculturalism by Simone Stirner on Mar 28, 2012 • By the end of the 1980s, one term had become the magic word in political theory and a mainstay of social politics in many liberal, western states: Multiculturalism. Between the numerous attempts...
Art / In the press The metamodern mindset by Editorial on Mar 24, 2012 • The Berlin Art Journal discusses the metamodern mindset. Alexander Forbes writes: In any moment, it’s nearly impossible to locate or isolate shifts, changes in tendencies, whether social, aesthetic, or otherwise—banal critical statement...	Film/TV / Politics Metamodernism, Quirky and Feminism* by Gry Rustad on Feb 29, 2012 • As metamodernism as an idiom, philosophy, sensibility and cultural force are being developed, conceptualized and analyzed, I think it is time to address an important and central aspect so far overlooked, namely...
In the press / Theory TANK Magazine interviews Timotheus Vermeulen by Editorial on Feb 23, 2012 • The renowned arts and culture magazine TANK Magazine has published an interview with Notes on metamodernism co-founder Timotheus Vermeulen. In the interview, Vermeulen discusses the meaning of the term metamodernism, the effects of...	Film/TV Less art, more substance. New tendencies in contemporary theatre by Birgit Schuhbeck on Feb 22, 2012 • After decades in which plays were marked by association, citation and intertextuality, nowadays we appear to experience a comeback of a kind of play that puts the focus on logic, psychological motivation......