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: …
Recently I joined a panel discussion on metamodernism at ESMOD Berlin. The panel discussed metamodernism, a term used to describe the shift in contemporary culture away from the trademarks of postmodernism.
NoM editor Alison Gibbons has published an article in Studia Neophilologica on the British novelist Adam Thirlwell and metamodernist style (2014, 1-15). This is the abstract: In 1990, John Frow was asking the question, already in past tense, “What was Postmodernism?”, while Linda Hutcheon, in the epilogue to the second edition of her seminal book The Politics of …
Literary scholar Jennifer Ashton – author of the canonical study From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century – has published a very interesting critical appraisal of metamodern poetry and the work of Dana Ward over at NonSite. In his poem ‘Things the Baby Liked, A-Z’, Ward invokes the figure of Bertolt Brecht, noting …
The American Book Review (34: 4) dedicated a special issue to metamodernism. It includes review…
In the special ‘post-postmodernism’ issue of the Estonian journal Methis (Vol 8, Nr 11, 2013), the editors Piret Viires and Priit Kruus have included a translation of ‘Notes on Metamodernism‘ (2010, translator Jaak Tomberg), alongside an introduction to metamodern theory and a series of interesting articles on contemporary Estonian literature. You can find the special issue here and the translation …
