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 University of Groningen, the Netherlands, will host the fourth international conference on emotional geographies next year. Its theme: affect and space in times of metamodernism. Among the keynote speakers are Rosi Braidotti and Nigel Thrift. We have posted the call integrally. You can find the link for applying below. Hope to see you there. …
We’ve stumbled upon a very interesting review of Stephen Burns’ Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism (2008), written by the Danish scholar Tore Rye Anderson for Politics and Culture. “Despite (…) lavish praise”, he writes Franzen’s novels have been largely neglected by literary scholars, at least compared to contemporaries like David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, who …
Hila Shachar’s new book, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Frequent Notes on Metamodernism contributor James MacDowell recently published his second academic essay on the quirky sensibility. His article in The New Review of Film and Television Studies situates Wes Anderson within the ‘quirky’ sensibility of recent American indie cinema, a category encompassing a range of films and filmmakers that emerged in Indiewood during the 1990s …
Regular Notes on metamodernism contributor James MacDowell recently published an essay on Quirky and metamodernism in the newly revamped academic film journal Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. You can read his article in full here.
