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2015

Locked Up: Siri Hustvedt’s ‘The Blazing World’ 
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | September 7, 2015

The ‘Dead Girl’ Aesthetic & Ballet Online
by Hila Shachar | Theatre | August 21, 2015

Resonances and Reverberations
by Rebecca Partridge | Art | June 9, 2015

A Closeness Always Faint
by Elliott Mickleburgh | Film and TV | June 5, 2015

Misunderstandings and clarifications 
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory | June 3, 2015

Robert Peston In The Desert Of The Real
by Dan Gregory | Network Culture | May 29, 2015

The Oscillating Zombie
by Zachary Hyde | Literature | May 7, 2015

The Role of the (Graphic) Designer…
by Jack Clarke | Art | April 16, 2015

Oscillating Towards the Sublime
by Sara Helen Binney | Literature | April 2, 2015

“That’s how quickly your life can change”
by Alison Gibbons | Literature | February 12, 2015

‘Computer Chess’ and the reclaiming of history in film
by Ruud Klomp | Film and TV | January 26, 2015

Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction
by Luke Turner | Theory | January 12, 2015

“Take that you intellectuals!” and “kaPOW!” 
by Alison Gibbons |Literature | January 7, 2015

2014

Miranda July: Interrupting the Conventions of the Personal
by Emma Sullivan | Literature | November 24, 2014

That Future Islands performance…
by Craig Pollard | Music | November 13, 2014

Common Authorship: Towards an Authority of Art
by Andrew Woods | Network Culture | November 4, 2014

[Re]construction: Metamodern ‘Transcendence’ and the Return of Myth 
by Brendan Dempsey | Theory | October 21, 2014

Andy Holden’s Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity
by Elinor Morgan | Art | September 29, 2014

A Living Archive: The Performance Territory as Social Interstice
by Amani Maihoub | Theatre | September 15, 2014

I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best
by Charles Walley | Literature | August 5, 2014

Beyond Postmodern Narcolepsy
by Niels van Poecke | Music | June 4, 2014

Composing Beauty
by Vincent Meelberg | Music | May 5, 2014

On LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s Metamodern Performance Art
by Abigail Ann Schwarz | Art | April 8, 2014

The Selvage of Incoherence
by Jenny Rowell | Literature | March 25, 2014

“I agree to this”: Third Angel and the Price of Fame
by Alison Gibbons | Theatre | January 29, 2014

A Word in Common
by Stephanie Bailey | Art | January 20, 2014

Speculative Engineering
by Elliott Mickleburgh | Architecture | January 6, 2014

2013

Levitated Mass
by Stephen Knudsen, James Elkins et al | Art | December 18, 2013

Quiet Moves 
by Luke Turner | Art | November 12, 2013

A Tale for the Time Being 
by Alison Gibbons | Literature | October 16, 2013

Poetry and the Price of Milk
by Jennifer Ashton | Literature | October 3, 2013

Participation and Affect
by Debbie Atkinson | Art  | July 2, 2013

Show All History 
by Elliott Mickleburgh | Art | June 24, 2013

See Something, Say Something
by Stephanie Bailey | Film and TV | May 20, 2013

Moving from I to It
by Cristina Bogdan | Art | May 9, 2013

Last Exit Underclass
by Karen van den Berg | Music | May 1, 2013

The Anti-Rebel
Art | April 24, 2013

Photography, Imperfection, Education
by Daniel C. Blight | Art | April 11, 2013

In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons 
by Luke Turner | Art | March 13, 2013

Thirteen theses on (the end of) liberal democracy 
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Politics | February 25, 2013

Parallel Campaigns
by Paula Doepfner | Literature | February 11, 2013

Disappearing Into One
by Luke Turner | Art | January 17, 2013

2012

The Image Object Post-Photoshop
by Luke Turner | Art | December 10, 2012

The Ethics of Nostalgia
by Hila Shachar | Film and TV | November 22, 2012

Geometries of Utopian Desire
by Luke Turner | Art | November 8, 2012

The Privilege of the Sponge
by Alexander Wolff | Literature | October 23, 2012

Trash Talk
by Max Hermens | Art | October 11, 2012

Playing Touchy-Feely
by Vincent Meelberg | Music | September 25, 2012

Interpassive Scepticism
by Max Majorana | Art | September 17, 2012

David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men & London’s Olympic Epiphany
by Luke Turner | Theatre | September 12, 2012

For the love of literature
by Mara Maticevic | Literature | September 4, 2012

New French Extremity: An Exigency for Reality
by Cristina Bogdan | Film and TV | August 14, 2012

The Fear of Failure
by Stephanie Bailey | Art | July 24, 2012

The New Aesthetic’s Speculative Promise
by Luke Turner | Theory | July 2, 2012

Which Side Are You On?
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | June 19, 2012

The Palimpsest and the Cannibal
by Karen Vestergaard Andersen | Art | June 12, 2012

To engage in literature
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | May 29, 2012

‘The border is everywhere’: excursions in the politics of identity
by Zoe Anderson | Politics | May 10, 2012

Photography as Metamodern Alchemy: the work of Stuart Bailes
by Luke Turner | Art | May 9, 2012

Defining the rootless label: a romantically ironic appeal
by Hannah Ebben | Music | April 5, 2012

Questioning Multiculturalism
by Simone Stirner | Politics | March 28, 2012

Discussing Metamodernism
by Editorial | Art | March 26, 2012

Metamodernism, Quirky and Feminism*
by Gry Cecilie Rustad | Film and TV | February 29, 2012

Less art, more substance. New tendencies in contemporary theatre
by Birgit Schuhbeck | Theatre | February 22, 2012

Duel is not a ‘gimmick’
by Jeroen Popelier | Literature | February 3, 2012

Architecture’s New Terrain
by Luke Butcher | Architecture | January 25, 2012

The lunar tic
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Theory | January 18, 2012

2011

Metamodern architecture
by Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen | Architecture | December 9, 2011

Thread Therapy
by Nadine Fessler | Art | November 30, 2011

Some thoughts on the metamodern museum
by Martijn Stevens | Art | November 19, 2011

Ryan Gander’s Locked Room Scenario
by Luke Turner | Art | November 9, 2011

Notes on the state of the subject
by Simone Stirner | Theory | November 2, 2011

The Awesome, or the metamodern sublime
by Kyle Karthauser | Theory | October 28, 2011

Seeking Substance in Historical Costume Films
by Hila Shachar | Film and TV | October 24, 2011

Illuminating language (II)
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | October 13, 2011

Learning with Ulf Aminde
by Abigail Christenson | Art | October 6, 2011

Illuminating Language
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | September 29, 2011

For Inclusion in the Syllabi
by Luke Turner | Network Culture | September 21, 2011

Discreet luxury
by Constantin von Maltzahn | Fashion | August 31, 2011

Reality Monger
by Kyle Karthauser | Literature | August 15, 2011

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
by Luke Butcher | Architecture | August 2, 2011

“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!”
by Gry Cecilie Rustad | Film and TV | July 26, 2011

Quirky, Tone and Metamodernism
by James MacDowell | Film and TV | July 19, 2011

‘for the love of…’
by Robin van den Akker | Network Culture | July 15, 2011

The Hepworth Wakefield
by Luke Butcher | Architecture | June 15, 2011

The Young Berlin Artists
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | June 8, 2011

Real Fiction (II)
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | May 19, 2011

The trick with the rabbit and the tricking rabbit
by Stephan Dahl | Economy | May 16, 2011

Democratising the statement of fact
by Reina-Marie Loader | Film and TV | May 5, 2011

Return to Innocence (?)
by Constantin von Maltzahn | Fashion | April 28, 2011

Real Fiction (I)
by Nadine Fessler | Literature | April 15, 2011

“Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the awesome.”
by Kyle Karthauser | Network Culture | April 11, 2011

Bjarke Ingels (II) – at Warpspeed
by Luke Butcher | Architecture | April 4, 2011

Metamodern fables
by Robin van den Akker | Art | March 25, 2011

Hard and soft
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Theory | March 16, 2011

Lucas Ossendrijver and the Sensible
by Constantin von Maltzahn | Fashion | March 11, 2011

Charles LeDray 
by David Lau | Art | March 2, 2011

Of heart and discourse
by Kyle Karthauser | Film and TV | February 24, 2011

Small scale, big change
by Luke Butcher | Architecture | February 18, 2011

The joke that wasn’t funny anymore…
by Gry Cecilie Rustad | Film and TV | February 10, 2011

Il faut être absolument metamoderne!
by Leonhard Herrmann | Literature | February 1, 2011

Sjaak Hullekes’ metamodern fashion
by Constantin von Maltzahn | Fashion | January 27, 2011

Thom Browne’s Metamodern Fashion
by Constantin von Maltzahn | Fashion | January 19, 2011

The New Weird Generation (II)
by Niels van Poecke | Music | January 6, 2011

2010

Mobile Men
by Nadine Fessler | Film and TV | December 29, 2010

Herzog & de Meuron (2)
by Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen | Architecture | December 4, 2010

The fall of the PI(I)GS
by Robin van den Akker | Economy | November 23, 2010

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
by James MacDowell | Politics | November 19, 2010

The door opens inwards
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | November 10, 2010

The Limits of Postmodern Theory (from a gaming perspective)
by Michael McKenny | Network Culture | November 7, 2010

Domestic politics in metamodern times
by Robin van den Akker | Politics | October 26, 2010

What meta means and does not mean
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory | October 14, 2010

Hard-boiled wonderland, blue velvet and the end of postmodernism
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Theory | September 23, 2010

The New Weird Generation (I)
by Niels van Poecke | Music | September 8, 2010

The Fountain – A call to discussion
by Reina-Marie Loader | Film and TV | September 5, 2010

Henrik Vibskov
by Hanka van der Voet | Fashion | August 30, 2010

James Franco
by David Lau | Film and TV | August 26, 2010

CocoRosie
by Hanka van der Voet | Music | August 16, 2010

Quirky
by James MacDowell | Film and TV | August 13, 2010

Sejla Kameric
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | August 12, 2010

New Romanticism
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory | August 9, 2010

Rodarte
by Hanka van der Voet | Fashion | August 8, 2010

Herzog & de Meuron (1)
by Robin van den Akker | Architecture | August 5, 2010

Strategies of the metamodern
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory | August 1, 2010

Glory At Sea
by James MacDowell | Film and TV | July 28, 2010

Best Coast
by Hanka van der Voet | Music | July 27, 2010

David Thorpe
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | July 20, 2010

Previous uses of the term metamodernism
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory |July 17, 2010

One Bryant Park, NYC
by Robin van den Akker | Architecture | July 16, 2010

Ragnar Kjartansson
by Timotheus Vermeulen | Art | July 15, 2010

What is metamodernism?
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory |July 15, 2010

Introduction to metamodernism
by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker | Theory |July 15, 2010

2009

In 2010, we migrated Notes on Metamodernism from our initial location at mtmdrn.blogspot.com to metamodernism.com. As a result of this migration, all the articles first published in 2009 appear in the 2010 rubric.

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