Kaye Donachie - Notes on Metamodernism

Paper addressed at Thinking in Unity Conference LMU Munich

Art, Politics, Theory / By Editorial / November 15, 2010 December 21, 2011

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. CEOs and Politicians express their ‘desire for change’ at every interview, voice a heartfelt ‘yes we can’ at each photo-op. Planners and architects increasingly replace their blueprints …

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Hard-boiled wonderland, blue velvet and the end of postmodernism

Art, Theory / By Timotheus Vermeulen / September 23, 2010 September 28, 2012

It has become somewhat of an axiom to associate certain artistic practices to specific discourses, and specific artists to certain sensibilities. It has become a truism, for instance, to link practices as diverse as eclecticism, parody, pastiche, detachment, flexi-narrative, and parataxis to the postmodern, and strategies like ‘optimism’, self-consciousness, formalism, functionalism, purism, and streams of …

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Previous uses of the term metamodernism

Theory / By Editorial / July 17, 2010 October 17, 2012

We feel we need to justify our use of the term metamodernism. In a future post we will explain its etymological origin and its relationship to the Platonic/Voegelin concept of metaxis. Here we will briefly refer to some of the term’s previous uses. Although we are the first to use the term metamodernism to describe …

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