Notes on metamodernism was initiated by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker in May 2009. It is part of an ongoing research project documenting developments in aesthetics and culture that can no longer be explained in terms of the postmodern but should be conceived of as metamodern.  We will irregularly post here with thoughts on trends and tendencies in current affairs and contemporary architecture, art, music, and film.

The webzine aims to bring together scholars and critics from across the world and from a great variety of disciplines. If you are a scholar, critic or blogger interested in contributing, contact us at mtmdrn at gmail dot com. You may also contact us via Facebook at Facebook dot com slash mtmdrn or twitter at twitter dot com slash metamodernism. Before sending in work, remember that the webzine is not a manifesto  so much as a place for critical exchange – entries may be objective or subjective, celebratory or condemning, as long as they are the result of critical reasoning.

EDITORS

Robin van den Akker, Antwerp
Robin van den Akker is a cultural philosopher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and a researcher at TNO Information and Communication Technology. He has written and spoken extensively on everyday life and digital culture, social space and social time, contemporary art and architecture and the work of Henri Lefebvre. Robin and Timotheus Vermeulen are founding editor of Notes on metamodernism. They are currently working on a monograph on the topic.
Nadine Feßler, Munich
Nadine Feßler studied Comparative Literature, History of Art and American Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. She is a member of PhD-Programm ProLit. Research assistant at LMU Munich. Is working on her PhD about post-postmodern narrative strategies.
Hila Shachar, Perth
Hila Shachar is a writer, researcher and Honorary Research Fellow within the Department of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She works as a writer for The Australian Ballet and Desktop Magazine, and a freelance writer for various other print and online publications. She can also be found on her own blog, le projet d’amour, which is part of her current research project. She has published several articles on film, feminism and nineteenth-century literature in various book collections, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Cultural Afterlives and Screen  Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). This book is based on her doctoral thesis, which explores the screen adaptation and cultural legacy of classic literature from the 1930s to the present age.
Timotheus Vermeulen, London & Amsterdam
Timotheus Vermeulen is co-director of the Centre for New Aesthetics and Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He has written and spoken extensively on contemporary aesthetics, inter- and transmediality, art, cinema, and television. Timotheus currently lives in The Netherlands. He has previously lived in NY, London and Berlin. Timotheus and Robin van den Akker are founding editors of Notes on metamodernism. They are currently working on a monograph on the topic.

CONTRIBUTORS

Luke Butcher, Manchester
Luke Butcher is currently studying for a MA in Architecture and Urbanism from the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA, a school jointly run by the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University), due for completion in August 2011. His project work has been exhibited in Manchester, London and Vienna and featured in a book on Architectural Modelmaking by Dr Nick Dunn. Luke is actively involved in the architectural community of Manchester, having jointly established a highly successful guest lecture series, organised symposia and was involved in establishing the Manchester Architecture and Design Festival. Originally from Peterborough, he has resided in Manchester since 2006.
Abigail Christenson, Liverpool
Abigail Christenson is Curator: Young People at Tate Liverpool. She has a special interest in collaborative art projects and served as project curator at Tate Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial 2010 working Filipino/Australian artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan and Czech Republic artist Eva Koťátkova, and in 2008/9 with Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. Abigail has worked with Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra in the production of two new commissions: I See a Woman Crying, 2009, and Ruth Drawing Picasso, 2009, and she co-curated the Rineke Dijkstra exhibition at Tate Liverpool in spring 2010.
Hannah Ebben, Nijmegen
Hannah Ebben (1992) is studying for a BA in Cultural Studies at the Radboad University in Nijmegen, where she is also attending the Honours Academy. She is interested in, among other things, affect, reception aesthetics and new wave music and its visual culture. 
Stephan Dahl, Hull
Stephan Dahl is lecturer Marketing at Hull University.
Leonhard Herrmann, Leipzig
Leonhard Herrman is lecturer 20th Century Literature at the University of Leipzig.
Kyle Karthauser, Nebraska
Kyle Karthauser is an Independent Researcher living in and across Nebraska, USA.
David Lau, New York & London
David Lau is an independent critic living in New York and London.
Reina Marie Loader, London
Reina Marie Loader is lecturer in Film Studies at Exeter University. Her research is primarily based in practice and develops a critical argument relating to the role of memory in the docudramatic representation of real events. In this regard, she has coined the phrase ‘documemory’. In 2005, she started her own film organisation called Cinéma Humain. The organisation is dedicated to creating awareness about human rights issues around the globe. Since its foundation, Reina-Marie has received numerous awards for her filmmaking including Best Newcomer at the Durban International Film Festival in 2008. She is currently developing projects about the marginalization of indigenous cultures in South Africa, Canada and West Papua.
Constantin von Maltzahn, Arnhem
Constantin von Maltzahn is a PhD student at the Radboud University Nijmegen/University of Amsterdam. Further, he works as a lecturer at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem. In his research he looks at the relays between individual and collective identity construction and their impact on consumer behaviour in the Dutch fashion industry. Next to his PhD, he has extensively written about menswear. His most recent publications include three contributions to the book “The New Man” (ArtEZ Press/d’ jonge hond).
James MacDowell, London
James MacDowell recently completed his doctoral thesis on the subject of the Hollywood ‘happy ending’ at the University of Warwick. He is a member of the editorial board of Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism, and has written on such subjects as Alfred Hitchcock and R. Kelly.
Niels van Poecke, Rotterdam
Niels van Poecke is lecturer in Cultural Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In addition, he writes freelance about popular music from a sociological and philosophical point of view, and is conducting a PhD-research on the search and struggle for authenticity in (post)modern and post-postmodern popular music. He is the author of the book The tragedy of tragedy, on Nietzsche, Wagner, and blues music (in Dutch: De tragiek van de tragedie, over Nietzsche, Wagner en bluesmuziek).
Gry Cecilie Rustad, Oslo
Gry Cecilie Rustad is conducting a PhD in Contemporary Television at the University of Oslo.
Birgit Schuhbeck, Munich
Birgit Schuhbeck completed her studies in German Literature, Theatre Studies and Communication Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. At the time she is working on her PhD funded by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation about modern theatre in Germany and its interconnections to taboo and society. She will be a  a visiting fellow at the University of Vienna until June 2012.
Martijn Stevens, Nijmegen
Martijn Stevens is a lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studies contemporary culture, with a special interest in digital art, popular media, critical theory, the virtual museum, cultural heritage and graphic novels. The focus of his current research is on the digital material, New Aesthetics and the conceptual shifts that result from the digitization of museum and heritage collections.
Simone Sofia Stirner, Munich
Simone Stirner is working towards her Master’s Degree as a graduate student of Comparative Literature and Political Science at LMU Munich and visiting researcher at UC Berkeley. Interested in questions of subjectivity and identity beyond postmodernism, contemporary Israeli literature and transnational spaces.
Luke Turner, London
Luke Turner (Manchester, 1982) is a London-based artist and writer. His practice revolves around the operations and oscillations of art, investigating notions of presence and affect engendered by the pursuit of the image. He completed his master’s degree in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2010, having previously gained a first class BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2008). Turner’s work has been exhibited extensively in London and internationally, including shows at the Whitechapel Gallery, Purdy Hicks Gallery, James Freeman Gallery, Vyner Street Gallery, The Arts Gallery and S-KAI Hamburg. 2011 saw the first solo exhibition of his work, entitled ‘Annunciations’, take place at 18HHG in London.
Hanka van der Voet, Amsterdam
Hanka van der Voet completed her MA degree in Arts and Cultural Studies at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in september 2006. After that she worked two years as the head of the editorial department at the independent style paper Glamcult. Not completely satisfied with her previous education and some doubts about being an editor, she decided to enrol in ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Fashion, Design & Strategy programme, with the specialisation Fashion Curation. Currently, Hanka works as a research assistant at the ArtEZ modelectoraat.

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