Editorial

Notes on Metamodernism was founded in 2009 by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker. They were later joined by Nadine Fessler, Hila Schachar, Luke Turner and Alison Gibbons. Today, the site features contributions by over 30 writers from across the globe, documenting anything from art to politics, critical theory to television.

Resonances and Reverberations

This conversation took place in the studio of artist Rebecca Partridge in advance of her exhibition Notations at Kunstverein Springhornhof and has been published as part of the exhibition catalogue earlier this year. Partridge suggested that it might resonate with themes that are regularly discussed and may be of interest to readers of, and researchers …

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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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Adbusters: ‘From Mo to Pomo to Metamo’

The January/February issue of Adbusters, the renowned activist network and magazine, looks into the shift from postmodernism to metamodernism. Written by Niels van Poecke, one of NoMs regular contributors, the essay on metamodernism is included in Aesthetico, the last issue of the Blueprint for a New World series, which aims, as the magazine puts it, for an aesthetic awakening, …

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Levitated Mass

It has been almost two years since Michael Heizer’s 340-ton quarry boulder was delivered to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and exalted as “Levitated Mass.”  The media buzz is long gone.  What is left to say about it? Well, the on-ground oglers talk about it every day, and if Heizer has his way, …

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