Interpassive Scepticism
Careful readers have probably noticed the high number of features that the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven has gained in the press over the past few months. Even though the museum…
What do the metamodernists want?
Metropolis M just published an interview with Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker in which they speak about the present and future of metamodernism. You can buy the magazine…
The Fear of Failure
“There is no longer anyone today who would be deceived by the accumulation of facts as to how much of historical representation and construction is fulfilled by naïve projections and identification….
Tideland
A.R. Warwick just published an analysis of Terry Gilliam’s Tideland as metamodern film in Art Writ. Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film Tideland centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose, and her solitary adventures during…
To engage in literature
In Rethinking Postmodernism(s) Katrin Amian declares that “Postmodernism, it seems, is history”[1] for the simple reason that “the term appears to have exhausted its potential as a means of…
Photography as Metamodern Alchemy: the work of Stuart Bailes
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…
