Robin van den Akker

Utopia, Sort of

Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker recently published an article in Studia Neophilologica, titled ‘Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism’ (2014, 1– 13), in which they discuss the emergence of a decidedly metamodern figure of Utopia (as trope, individual desire or collective fantasy). The following excerpt is taken from the introductory section on metamodernism: …

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Chinese Translation Notes on Metamodernism

Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker’s initial article ‘Notes on Metamodernism’ has now been translated into Mandarin by Chen Houliang. It has been published in the Journal Foreign Theoretical Trends, no 11 (2012). You can download the article here.

The metamodern mindset

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 of the year, certainly. But, as we’ve probed several times within this very publication and surely as others have as well, for Berlin’s …

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