The Norwegian Newspaper Klassekampen featured a two-page article on metamodernism and an interview with our very own Gry Rustad last week. The article discusses cultural practices we have addressed in detail in this webzine – such as the election of Barack Obama, the rise of the Tea Party, the work of Olafur Eliasson, Coco Rosie, …
Notes on metamodernism is one year old today! We would like to thank all our contributors – James, Kyle, Michael, Leonard, Nadine, Stephan, Luke, Hanka, Niels, Reina, Constantin, David, and Gry – for their great and original insights. We’d also like to thank you, our reader, for returning to our webzine in such great numbers …
Some of our colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, are organizing an promising symposium on post-postmodernism and trauma and asked us to spread the word. Among the speakers are Raoul Eshelman and Hans Bertens. We hope to feature a brief conference report later this month. Beyond Aftermaths: Contemporary (Post-)Postmodernism in the Shadow of the Twentieth Century, 21-22 …
As you will have noticed, Notes on metamodernism has undergone some changes of late. For one, we have relocated from mtmdrn.blogspot.com to metamodernism.com. We have also transferred all of our archives. Thus, if you are looking for one blogpost or topic in particular, say Timotheus Vermeulen’s Hard boiled wonderland – from pomo to metamo, you …
The postmodern years of plenty, pastiche and parataxis are over. In fact, if we are to believe the many academics, critics and pundits whose books and essays describe the decline and demise of the postmodern, they have been over for quite a while now. But if these commentators agree the postmodern condition has been abandoned, …
