# Notes on Metamodernism

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- [See Something, Say Something](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/05/20/see-something-say-something/): Stephanie Bailey on Greece's songs of protest and pain amid the current economic crisis, and Costas Ferris's 1983 movie 'Rembetiko'.
- [Last Exit Underclass](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/05/01/last-exit-underclass/): Karen van den Berg examines the imagery of clichéd Americana portrayed in Lana Del Rey's 'Ride' video, and the politics of white trash.
- [Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/): Metamodernism is a term that has gained traction in recent years as a means of articulating developments in contemporary culture, which, it is argued (and our generation appears to intuitively recognise) has seen a move beyond the postmodern mode of the late 20th century.
- [Locked Up: Siri Hustvedt’s 'The Blazing World'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/09/07/locked-up-siri-hustvedts-the-blazing-world/): Siri Hustvedt’s latest work The Blazing World (2014) is a complex and multi-layered novel that deals with the notion of authorship in the art world. The novel shows an intricate play with the concept of authorship and highlights in particular a form of authorship that is rather restrictive. The fictional author/creator constructs an aesthetic experience
- [<em>That</em> Future Islands performance…](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/11/13/that-future-islands-performance/): Craig Pollard on historical perspective in contemporary music making: reckoning with Duchamp, the postmodern, and the language of pop
- [What is metamodernism?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/15/what-is-metamodernism/): What is metamodernism? A brief definition
- [Andy Holden's Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/09/29/andy-holdens-maximum-irony-maximum-sincerity/): Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity (MI!MS) was a proposal for an art movement, complete with manifesto – “M.I.!M.S., A Manifesto of Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity”
- [Misunderstandings and clarifications](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/06/03/misunderstandings-and-clarifications/): It has been five years since our essay-cum-opening statement ‘Notes on Metamodernism’ was published in the Journal of aesthetics and culture, about six and a half years since it was written, and sevenish years since it was conceived late at night in a student dorm room in London, discussing, not entirely sober, the financial crisis,
- [[Re]construction: Metamodern ‘Transcendence’ and the Return of Myth](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/10/21/reconstruction-metamodern-transcendence-and-the-return-of-myth/): As the nineteenth century drew to a close, traditional religion and its grand narrative were in general decline — a social reality captured by Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous declaration, “God is dead” (1). While this statement, of course, served Nietzsche’s own philosophical ideals (which in 1882 were still idiosyncratic enough to allow it a serious challenge),
- [The Role of the (Graphic) Designer…](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/04/16/the-role-of-the-graphic-designer/): The role that the designer plays in society has, for many years, been relatively fixed – a client passes information to a ‘professional creative’ who then formats the given content for a specific audience using their specific toolkit; be it a chair, a website or a book. However, around the turn of the millennium something
- [Photography, Imperfection, Education](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/04/11/photography-imperfection-education/): Writer and curator Daniel C Blight casts his critical eye on the Fotomuseum Winterhur’s blog, Still Searching, and the role of politics in art education.
- [The ‘Dead Girl’ Aesthetic & Ballet Online](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/08/21/the-dead-girl-aesthetic-ballet-online/): The popularity of ballet on the internet is one that often (but not always) relies on the idea of ballet as a static aesthetic rather than as a performance. And to be more specific, as a distinctly ‘feminine’ aesthetic. As both a writer about ballet and a researcher working within the fields of Adaptation and
- [The New Aesthetic’s Speculative Promise](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/07/02/the-new-aesthetics-speculative-promise/): The interweb has been abuzz of late with talk of The New Aesthetic. A never-ending stream of polemical blog posts and autobot-regurgitated twitter commentaries (hashtag #newaesthetic) bombards us from every angle. What is this new thing? Why does it matter? Where will it lead? Is it even a thing at all?
- [On LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner's Metamodern Performance Art](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/04/08/on-shia-labeoufs-metamodern-performance-art/): Abigail Ann Schwarz experiences Shia LaBeouf's #IAMSORRY performance exhibit in Los Angeles and the surrounding media coverage.
- [Less art, more substance. New tendencies in contemporary theatre](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/02/22/less-art-more-substance-new-tendencies-in-contemporary-theatre/): After decades in which plays were marked by association, citation and intertextuality, nowadays we appear to experience a comeback of a kind of play that puts the focus on logic, psychological motivation and straight-forward narration. In my opinion, what theater aims for is not simple provocation. Also, its aesthetic can no longer be reduced to being taboo-breaking. Theatre turns towards ‘real’ people with real problems. The plays refer to more than just themselves, and in the process stories are created that have an effect on the viewer again. Those stories don´t allow the viewer to be distanced anymore. Heavily influenced by the experience of postmodern apathetic theater, contemporary drama tries to incorporate an ethical perspective again.
- [A Closeness Always Faint](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/06/05/a-closeness-always-faint/): From a perspective traditional to cybernetics and information theory, the necessary condition that foregrounds any act of mediation is separation. To communicate, it is presupposed that the entity that transmits information is discrete from the entity that receives it. By initiating the act of communication, the entities involved consent to collapse, as Eugene Thacker calls
- [Seeking Substance in Historical Costume Films](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/24/seeking-substance-in-historical-costume-films/): A common strategy used by many critics of contemporary historical films and costume dramas is to locate such films within the critical mode of a postmodern nostalgia. Such a postmodern nostalgia is defined by what Cora Kaplan calls the “much debated view that the passage from modernity to postmodernity has been marked by the profound loss of a sense of history.”[1] Fredric Jameson’s now famous indictment of postmodernism is often used to illustrate this “profound loss”. Jameson’s Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, begins with the declaration that “it is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.”[2] Instead, Jameson argues that postmodernism functions through “the random cannibalization of all the styles of the past”, creating a “loss of historicity”.[3]
- [Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/07/26/cultural-afterlives-and-screen-adaptations-of-classic-literature/): Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company
- [The Ethics of Nostalgia](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/11/22/the-ethics-of-nostalgia/): For the past few months, I’ve been reading articles about blogging. Specifically, about the way bloggers interact with the past through things such as vintage outfit posts, design pieces that draw inspiration from history, or a simple visual adoration of the styles of the past collected on their various social media platforms such as Pinterest and Tumblr. There has been a certain thread of analysis running through the various articles I’ve encountered on the subject, many of which are highly critical of the nostalgic ‘vintage’ trend amongst young bloggers. It is argued that history is being flattened out of meaning and significance as a simple aesthetic; as a ‘fashion’ one can wear, or a way one can decorate the home. That is, we no longer have a ‘real’ relationship with history and its narratives, but are stuck in an aesthetic vacuousness, superficially engaging with the past as a style for our consumption.
- [Robert Peston In The Desert Of The Real](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/05/29/robert-peston-in-the-desert-of-the-real/): Robert Peston is a kind of modern broadcasting hero. The BBC’s Economics Editor is a popular, engaging and energetic figure who helps explain capitalism to the people of the UK. Sometimes though, he seems rather a worried man. He worries about the price of crude oil. He worries about the government deficit and the latest unemployment
- [Resonances and Reverberations](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/06/09/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
- [The Oscillating Zombie](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/05/07/the-oscillating-zombie/): Zachary Hyde on the metamodern zombie subject in Manuel Gonzales’s “All of Me”.
- [Oscillating Towards the Sublime](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/04/02/oscillating-towards-the-sublime-2/): Postmodernism is dead, but its successor has not yet been crowned. Attributes of that successor have, however, begun to be elucidated. Among them is the idea that, after the scepticism of postmodernism, interest is re-emerging in the inexplicable, the unspeakable, in the things that cannot be encompassed rationally. Florian Niedlich calls this development a ‘religious
- [“That’s how quickly your life can change”](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/02/12/thats-how-quickly-your-life-can-change/): Adam Thirlwell's Serpentine Bridge Commission and everyday prophecy. “…prophetic speech, which tells of the impossible future, also tells of the ‘nonetheless’ that breaks the impossible and restores time.” (Blanchot 2003 [1959]: 81).
- ['Computer Chess' and the reclaiming of history in film](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/26/computer-chess-and-the-reclaiming-of-history-in-film/): In his widely acclaimed text on history in film, History on Film/Film on History, Robert A. Rosenstone championed the historical film as a way of ‘doing history’, and put forward the notion of the filmmaker as historian. His work, and that of other historians, can be understood as a postmodernist movement away from the traditional
- [Utopia, Sort of](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/14/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', in which they discuss the emergence of a decidedly metamodern figure of Utopia (as trope, individual desire or collective fantasy).
- [Disappearing Into One](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/01/17/disappearing-into-one/): "When the two disappear into the one, where does the one go?" So asks the elusive Zen koan that serves as a starting point for this thoughtfully staged exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection, a curatorial collaboration between postgraduate students from Goldsmiths and Chelsea College of Art.
- [(What Comes After) Metamodernism?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/07/what-comes-after-metamodernism/): The panel discussed metamodernism, a term used to describe the shift in contemporary culture away from the trademarks of postmodernism.
- [“Take that you intellectuals!” and “kaPOW!”](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/07/take-that-you-intellectuals-and-kapow/): NoM editor Alison Gibbons has published an article in Studia Neophilologica on the British novelist Adam Thirlwell and metamodernist style (2014, 1-15).
- [Adbusters: 'From Mo to Pomo to Metamo'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/08/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.
- [Miranda July: Interrupting the Conventions of the Personal](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/11/24/miranda-july-interrupting-the-conventions-of-the-personal/): Emma Sullivan on Miranda July's performative identities, and the short story collections 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' and 'It Chooses You'.
- [Common Authorship: Towards an Authority of Art](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/11/04/common-authorship-towards-an-authority-of-art/): Andrew Woods on network culture, collaborative social interactions, and Dries Verhoeven’s 2010 'Life Streaming' as an example of metamodern authorship.
- [A Living Archive: The Performance Territory as Social Interstice](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/09/15/a-living-archive-the-performance-territory-as-social-interstice/): Amani Maihoub on the relational aesthetics of 'Isabella's Room' and Jan Lauwers' theater work with Needcompany. Together with his choreographer wife Grace Ellen Barkey, visual artist and theater maker Jan Lauwers formed the Flemish theater collective Needcompany in 1986.
- [A Word in Common](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/01/20/a-word-in-common/): Stephanie Bailey explores the idea of the commons in relation to how we use and view words. In the 21st Century, much has already been said about a need for a new lexicon. The concepts of the previous century, such ideas as freedom, democracy and equality, have become abstract voids that seem to make little sense to us anymore.
- [Metamodernism at the Stedelijk - The Return of History](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/09/01/metamodernism-the-return-of-history/): On the 25th September, Notes on Metamodernism joins hands with the Stedelijk Museum to organise an international symposium on metamodernism. The goal: to draw a cognitive map of our present in order to grasp the changing contours…
- [I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/08/05/i-love-roses-when-theyre-past-their-best/): Charles Whalley on the 'post-internet' subject and new directions in contemporary poetry in this recent Harry Burke edited anthology.
- [Poetry and the Price of Milk](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/10/03/poetry-and-the-price-of-milk/): The discussion on metamodern poetry is picking up speed. After Seth Abramson's series of celebrations of metamodern poetry in the Huffington Post (see here and here), a more critical appraisal has now appeared over at NonSite. 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 essay on the poetry of Dana Ward.
- [The Selvage of Incoherence](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/03/25/the-selvage-of-incoherence/): Examining how Padgett Powell’s treatment of literary devices in 'The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?' situates the text in the realm of Metamodernism.
- [David Foster Wallace's Hideous Men & London's Olympic Epiphany](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/12/david-foster-wallaces-hideous-men-londons-olympic-epiphany/): As this inclement and balmy London summer draws to a close, the ICA played host to Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace’s darkly comic collection of short stories, adapted for stage by artists Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy.
- ["I agree to this": Third Angel and the Price of Fame](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/01/29/i-agree-to-this-third-angel-and-the-price-of-fame/): Alison Gibbons on The Life and Loves of a Nobody as a metamodernist play
- [Beyond Postmodern Narcolepsy](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/06/04/beyond-postmodern-narcolepsy/): In his book ‘Retromania, Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past’ (2011), music journalist Simon Reynolds states that popular (music) culture is suffering from retromania, an incurable addiction to its own past. According to Niels van Poecke, his analysis is based on a nineteenth century - and therefore very modern - notion of ‘authenticity’. It makes himself a symptom of that which he criticizes: retromania. Popular music culture nowadays is neither modern nor postmodern, but metamodern.
- [Notes on the state of the subject](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/11/02/notes-on-the-state-of-the-subject/): Postmodernism announced the death of the subject, but recent developments in literature, philosophy and political agency suggest that is alive and kicking as ever. Not in form of the modern Cartesian ego though and also not in denial of all the subjectivity-disrupting forces that postmodern theory pointed out. It returns with a great leap of faith, in a fragile moment of intersubjective trust and reveals characteristic traits that call for another vernacular, one that this webzine has come to describe as metamodern.
- [Quiet Moves](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/11/12/quiet-moves/): Notes on curation, Chandelier's 'Moves' exhibition & Tereza Zelenkova's 'The Absence of Myth' at Legion TV.
- [Composing Beauty](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/05/05/composing-beauty/): What if I want to compose something that is simply beautiful? Am I allowed to do this, or will this act result in my being regarded as a composer who simply wants to please the listener, instead of one that articulates and tries to solve particular problems, musical or otherwise, through his or her music?
- [Meet the two artists behind Shia LaBeouf's #IAMSORRY](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/03/06/meet-the-two-artists-behind-shia-labeoufs-iamsorry/): Dazed have just published an interview with Notes on Metamodernism co-editor Luke Turner and performance artist Nastja Rönkkö, in which they discuss their collaborative project with Shia LaBeouf.
- [The rise of the BRICs](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/23/the-rise-of-the-brics/): At the beginning of the decade, just after the events of 9/11, Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jim O'Neill coined the remarkably apt acronym BRIC to describe a group of nations that would become, in his view, the main contenders of Western economic dominance. This group consists of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), and, since the
- [The Awesome, or the metamodern sublime](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/28/the-awesome-or-the-metamodern-sublime/): Under postmodernism, cyberspace served as the most prominent cultural example of the sublime. Today, however, the concept of opacity has emerged which negates the corrosive effect of web links, providing a way “out” of the otherwise never-ending labyrinth of links. Moreover, this opacity provides us with a notion that negotiates between beauty and sublimity – the awesome.
- [Glory At Sea](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/28/glory-at-sea/): Glory at sea
- [The Image Object Post-Photoshop](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/12/10/the-image-object-post-photoshop/): We are living in a post-Photoshop era — or so Lorenzo Durantini postulates, with a wry smile. Durantini has curated Brush It In, a group exhibition at Flowers Gallery taking its title from a colloquial expression for the act of digital manipulation using Adobe’s ubiquitous image editing software.
- [Geometries of Utopian Desire](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/11/08/geometries-of-utopian-desire/): Jess Littlewood’s photo collages present a series of visions that are at once otherworldly and familiar, eerie yet alluring. These dark, imagined landscapes, littered with their ambiguous structures, seem to perfectly encapsulate the current atmosphere of hope and disquiet, of the desire for a better future amidst the decay of recent ideologies.
- [Quirky, Tone and Metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/07/19/quirky-tone-and-metamodernism/): quirky, indie cinema, Anderson, Gondry, Kaufman, Jonze, Hess, Buffalo ’66, Punch-Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees, Lars and the Real Girl, Little Miss Sunshine
- [Metamodernism, Quirky and Feminism*](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/02/29/metamodernism-quirky-and-feminism/): As metamodernism as an idiom, philosophy, sensibility and cultural force are being developed, conceptualized and analyzed, I think it is time to address an important and central aspect so far overlooked, namely that of feminism. What kind of feminist implications does metamodernism entail? What kinds of femininity does metamodernist art and popular culture depict? How can we (re)conceptualize feminism within metamoderism? This essay wishes to address these questions and issues within the context of recent tendencies in film and television by looking at the female representation in FOX’s sitcom New Girl (2011-present) and NBC’s Parks And Recreation (2009-present).
- [Speculative Engineering](https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/01/06/speculative-engineering/): The architecture, philosophy and Internet art of a hybridized reality. At the end of the 20th century, humanity had a curious strategy for regarding the techno-spaces unfolding with the advancement of digital technology…
- [Levitated Mass](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/12/18/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, they will do so for the next 3,500 years. Even the skeptics have to admit that something new and interesting is likely to come up in conversation in that span. Not to wait, in an effort to start a new kind of conversation about the rock, theorists Stephen Knudsen, James Elkins, Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker and Luke Turner weigh in through this three-part essay. In late April/ early May, the sculpture comes into spectacular alignment with the sun and this is key to the discussion (see image below). In the context of this alignment the following questions are posed: Is Levitated Mass reflective of older ideas of the sublime, The Kantian sublime or is it reflective of a newer immersive, the postmodern sublime? Or does it paradoxically operate within and ultimately beyond the philosophy of both?
- [New Romanticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/09/new-romanticism/): New Romanticism and metamodernism
- [A Tale for the Time Being](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/10/16/a-tale-for-the-time-being/): Reading Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being [1], now in 2013, I find myself in no doubt that the book is exactly that – a tale for the time being. Indeed, the novel appears to speak to the present, to what we might think of as the metamodern moment.
- [In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/03/13/in-pursuit-of-elusive-horizons/): Luke Turner examines recent landscape works by Richard T. Walker and David Blandy, reflecting the welcome return of the Quest in contemporary art.
- [American Book Review dedicates special issue to metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/08/23/american-book-review-focuses-on-metamodernism/): The American Book Review (34: 4) dedicated a special issue to metamodernism. It includes review…
- ['een verlangen naar oprechtheid'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/09/17/een-verlangen-naar-oprechtheid/): IN MEI VAN DIT JAAR PUBLICEERDE dit weekblad onder de kop ‘Verlangen naar oprechtheid’ een korte recensie van het laatste album van zangeres Anouk, Sad Singalong Songs. Een maand eerder verscheen ook al een artikel met vrijwel dezelfde titel. Lynn Bergers recensie ‘Een verlangen naar oprechtheid’ gaat echter niet over Nederlandse popmuziek, maar over de roman A Thousand
- [Märkmeid metamodernismist](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/08/05/markmeid-metamodernismist/): 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
- [Participation and Affect](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/07/02/participation-and-affect/): Debbie Atkinson reflects on Kateřina Šedá's Tate commission, 'From Morning Till Night', and the role of relational art in the Internet age.
- [Show All History](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/06/24/show-all-history/): Elliott Mickleburgh on metamodern historical narratives, new media, and the work of Oliver Laric. New media in the 21st century is in a state. This is not merely to say that the thoroughly digitized landscape of communications technologies we are constantly immersed in is vast and disorderly…
- [A New Dawn](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/03/19/a-new-dawn/): "I paint your house, you sing a song at my boyfriend’s birthday. The next door neighbour sets up a farm on the roof of his house. Artists sell gloves knitted by Granny – the proceeds are for an art project. Things can be different!"
- [Thirteen theses on (the end of) liberal democracy](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/02/25/thirteen-theses-on-the-end-of-liberal-democracy/): Liberal democracy isn’t doing so well these days. The countries that have it seem keen to get rid of it. Presidents are installed without being elected (Italy), autocratic populist parties are on the rise (the US, the UK, France, the Netherlands), debates are settled by hand-to-hand fighting (South Korea), and freedom of speech is inhibited
- [Moving from I to It](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/05/09/moving-from-i-to-it/): London-based curatorial collective Formcontent's 15-month nomadic project, 'It's moving from I to It', and their recent events at the David Roberts Art Foundation.
- [Playing Touchy-Feely](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/25/playing-touchy-feely-musical-improvisation-as-metamodern-performance/): Musical improvisation is a metamodern practice. It is an oscillation between two opposing poles: the willingness to be open to the sounds produced by others and the urge to direct the musical direction of the improvisation. It is impossible to unite these two stances, but musicians sincerely try to do so anyway, by entering into
- [Vrij Nederland - Grunberg Helps...](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/07/30/vrij-nederland-grunberg-helps/): Q. Cultuurfilosofen Robin van den Akker en Timotheus Vermeulen beweren dat de kunstperiode metamodernisme is aangebroken. (Simplistisch gezegd: een periode waarin de mens, gevoed door onvrede, streeft naar iets anders maar niet precies weet waarnaar.) Zou u uw eigen werk metamodern kunnen noemen? – Vincent Kolenbrander, Groningen A. Find Grunberg's (somewhat hilarious) answer here.
- [Beyond Postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/03/13/beyond-postmodernism/): The American art magazine Art Pulse has just published an interesting article by the art historian Stephen Knudsen on metamodernism and painting, in particular the work of Bo Bartlett. We have posted an excerpt below. You can read the whole article here. School of the Americas has postmodern reflection on a par with the likes of
- [The Anti-Rebel](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/04/24/the-anti-rebel/): David Foster Wallace proclaimed that the generation of artists who would oppose postmodernism would perhaps be “some weird bunch of ‘anti-rebels’, born oglers who dare to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse single-entendre values” (Wallace 192). These artists would address “old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S.
- [Discussing Metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/03/26/discussing-metamodernism-2-0/): Discussing Metamodernism, with Ulf Aminde, Yael Bartana, Monica Bonvicini, Mariechen Danz, Annabel Daou, Paula Doepfner, Olafur Eliasson, Mona Hatoum, Andy Holden, Šejla Kamerić, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kris Lemsalu, Issa Sant, David Thorpe and Angelika J. Trojnarski and Luke Turner/Nastja Rönkkö
- [Parallel Campaigns](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/02/11/parallel-campaigns/): Robert Musil’s ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ and David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ are two of the most meaningful and comprehensive works of the 20th century. Robert Musil’s ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ [The Man without Qualities], originally intended as a three-part novel, appeared in 1930 (1st book) and 1932 (2nd book, 1st part). In 1978, the German
- [Capitalism 4.0](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/01/23/capitalism-4-0/): Review of Anatole Kaletsky's Capitalism 4.0
- [Chinese Translation Notes on Metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2013/01/29/chinese-translation-notes-on-metamodernism/): 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 Stedelijk Museum in times of metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/10/26/the-stedelijk-museum-in-times-of-metamodernism/): Timotheus Vermeulen, one of NoM's founding editors, has just published a piece in Frieze discussing the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum in times of metamodernism. He writes: In the cultural industries things have changed considerably as well. The cultural logic of Postmodernism has been displaced by another sensibility: metamodernism (of course, this is a global
- [The Privilege of the Sponge](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/10/23/the-privilege-of-the-sponge/): Clemens J. Setz and Metamodernism. In 2007 Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz entered the literary spotlight with a much appreciated debut novel. In four loosely connected episodes he transposed the peculiar and sometimes tragic relationship between fathers and sons...
- [Thread Therapy](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/11/30/thread-therapy/): Last October thirteen international young artists were showing their work in an old hotel in Munich, called Mariandl. Two of them – Stephanie Müller and Klaus Erich Dietl – transformed one of the hotel rooms into a therapy room. The room itself as well as their therapeutic concept was a combination of surrealism and humorous
- [To engage in literature](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/05/29/to-engage-in-literature/): In Rethinking Postmodernism(s) Katrin Amian declares that “Postmodernism, it seems, is history”[1] for the simple reason that “the term appears to have exhausted its potential as a means of describing and understanding the shifting alliances of literary and cultural production in the new millennium.”[2] I, too, believe contemporary literature can not be understood as postmodern. In fact, I believe, labeling it ‘postmodern’ is unserviceable. This term limits the possibilities to interpret and reflect on these texts and simplifies the complexity of today’s literature.
- [What do the metamodernists want?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/02/what-do-the-metamodernists-want/): Metropolis M just published an interview with Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker in which they speak about the present and future of metamodernism. You can buy the magazine here. Internationally, their theory is finding ample response, from the columns of the British art magazine frieze, for example, but not much has been written about
- [For the love of literature](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/04/for-the-love-of-literature-elif-batumans-the-possessed/): Most people who are interested in Literature in a theoretical or academic way have points in their careers when they encounter a personal disappointment about their object of study; a nagging feeling about the literature that fascinates them. To engage in literary criticism requires a lot of enthusiasm. Sometimes, working with literature, this enthusiastic feeling
- [How PoMo can you go?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/10/16/how-pomo-can-you-go/): Kim Levin just published an article in ARTnews describing the end of postmodernism and the emergence of metamodernism. She writes: In the past couple of years, there’s been a new post- Postmodern movement lurking in Europe: Metamodernism. It features an agenda that involves art that is impermanent, incremental, provisional, and idiosyncratic, as well as site-specific
- [Trash Talk](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/10/11/trash-talk/): Currently in exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco's Asterisms features thousands of waste objects collected from two locations, a bay along the coast of Mexico and a playing field in New York City. Asterisms is a work that reflects on the culture of waste; where it comes from, where it ends and the processes it goes through in between. As Max Hermens will argue in this article, Orozco has succesfully combined postmodern deconstructionism with what you could call a (meta)modern (re)construction.
- [Thom Browne's Metamodern Fashion](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/01/19/thom-brownes-metamodern-fashion/): Thom Browne's metamodern fashion. A discussion of Thom Browne's work along the lines of metamodernism, postmodernism, and modernism.
- [Sjaak Hullekes' metamodern fashion](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/01/27/sjaak-hullekes-metamodern-fashion/): Sjaak Hullekes in view of metamodernism
- [ArtInfo discusses metamodernism with Timotheus Vermeulen](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/04/18/tanja-wagner-and-timotheus-vermeulen-discuss-metamodernism/): Alexander Forbes interviews gallerist Tanja Wagner and cultural philosopher Timotheus Vermeulen. Check out what they have to say about young artists, the return of hope, the regained autnomony of art and how the term metamodernism tries to encapture these current developments, here. For the German version go here.
- [Defining the rootless label: a romantically ironic appeal](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/04/05/defining-the-rootless-label-a-romantically-ironic-appeal/): This article deals with a thought process which I have tried to capture. For a long time I have wished for a definition of Asperger’s Syndrome, a desire based on my own experience with it. Here I would like to illustrate that my study and life have evoked some thoughts about Asperger’s. Those ideas have developed into a recognition of a tendency that could be metamodern. My essay strives for an awareness of the experience of having Asperger’s, and of the way it’s embedded in culture and society.
- [Twijfel](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/13/metamodernisme/): Dutch journal Twijfel publishes Metamodernisme
- [The metamodern mindset](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/03/24/the-metamodern-mindset/): The Berlin Art Journal discusses the metamodern mindset. Alexander Forbes writes: In any moment, it’s nearly impossible to locate or isolate shifts, changes in tendencies, whether social, aesthetic, or otherwise—banal critical statement of the year, certainly. But, as we’ve probed several times within this very publication and surely as others have as well, for Berlin’s
- [Look out for metamodernism next year!](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/31/look-out-for-metamodernism-next-year/): Der Tagesspiegel lists metamodernism as one of the trends to look out for in the arts next year.
- [Frieze: 'Philosophy Then, Now & Beyond'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/08/22/frieze-philosophy-then-now-beyond/): The september issue of Frieze looks back at two decades of art, art criticism and essayism. Along with Simon Critchley and Nina Power, our very own Timotheus Vermeulen reviewed the philosophical debates of the 1990s, the 2000s and beyond.
- [Metamodernism goes Norway](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/09/30/metamodernism-goes-norway/): 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, the films of Wes Anderson, and the ABC television show Community - as well developments within Norwegian literature, exemplified by the work of Karl Ove Knausgard and Tore Renberg. Click on the above image to download the article (in Norwegian only).
- [#Occupy is a Wikimovement. Not a Facebook-revolution](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/19/occupy-is-a-wikimovement-not-a-facebook-revolution-2/): The article argues that #occupy must be seen as an open source-movement - a wikiprotest. This explains why many a babyboomer and many a member of the lost generation struggles to understand its methods, organisation and aims. Whereas the network generation attempts to create, after Wikipedia, a movement that anyone can edit, a movement that is self-organised, inclusive and open-ended, they merely see a protest without strong leaders, clear demands and ultimatums.
- [‘The border is everywhere’: excursions in the politics of identity](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/05/10/the-border-is-everywhere-metamodern-excursions-in-the-politics-of-identity/): This essay explores the newfound metamodern reclaiming of identities that do not fit tidily within old social categories or post-essential identity subversion.
- [Questioning Multiculturalism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/03/28/liberal-multiculturalism-and-the-metanarrative-trap/): Since the turn of the millennium, the term multiculturalism, former darling of politicians, who loved to adorn their speeches and interviews with it, seems to have turned into some kind of boogie man, the expression „multi-kulti“ is used more and more depreciative, and in places, where multiculturalism was previously esteemed as mainstay of social politics, it is now not only discarded as outdated, but also held responsible for phenomena such as cultural segregation or extremism.
- [The Palimpsest and the Cannibal](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/06/12/the-palimpsest-and-the-cannibal/): In his recent study The Signature of All Things, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben suggests that the present can be discovered on the shores of remembrance and recovered at the frontiers of future dreams. It lingers somewhere between what we have not yet forgotten and what we cannot yet imagine. With this idea of the present in mind I would like to discuss The New Museum's estimation of contemporary art, ‘The Ungovernables', as well as the moment in time it represents.
- [Tideland](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/06/12/metamodernism-in-art-writ/): A.R. Warwick just published an analysis of Terry Gilliam's Tideland as metamodern film in Art Writ. Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film Tideland centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose, and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas. With both veiled and obvious allusions to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the story focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life
- [The Fear of Failure](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/07/24/the-fear-of-failure-on-politics-and-non-politics-in-the-7th-berlin-biennale-and-documenta-13/): A review of the 7th Berlin Biennale and dOCUMENTA (13)
- [Interpassive Scepticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/17/interpassive-scepticism-visiting-the-van-abbe-museum/): Careful readers have probably noticed the high number of features that the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven has gained in the press over the past few months. Even though the museum of modern and contemporary art is often praised both nationally and internationally, it suffers from increasing criticism by the local authorities. On the one hand
- [Die Zeit goes metamodern...](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/22/die-zeit-goes-metamodern/): Die Zeit goes metamodern
- [For Inclusion in the Syllabi](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/09/21/for-inclusion-in-the-syllabi/): Exploring the relationship between art and learning, this project by Five Storey Projects sets up a complex and unfolding series of interdisciplinary collaborations, probing the structures on which creativity is layered.
- [Previous uses of the term metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/17/previous-uses-of-the-term-metamodernism/): We feel we need to justify our use of the term metamodernism. In a future post we will explain its etymological origin and its relationship to the Platonic/Voegelin concept of metaxis. Here we will briefly refer to some of the term's previous uses. Although we are the first to use the term metamodernism to describe
- ['for the love of...'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/07/15/for-the-love-of/): Last month the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University hosted Common love. As the catalogue aptly put it, the show exhibited a rather ‘unconventional exploration of love’ ‘Love?’ Yes. Love. L.O.V.E. And there could not have been a timelier moment. Of late love has been one of the most surprising, interesting and uplifting tropes in
- [Which Side Are You On?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/06/19/which-side-are-you-on/): Annabel Daou’s art work ‘Which Side are You On?’ features an old television, a still image, a tape recording of the artist asking the titular question ‘which side are you on?’, and a recording of people’s answers to that question. That’s it. It seems simple enough. But this work represents the doubts and desires of millions of young people today.
- [The door opens inwards](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/11/10/the-door-opens-inwards-2/): Some time ago, Galerie Tanja Wagner curated the first exhibition explicitly linked to the metamodern. It would be an understatement to say that the exhibition was a success in terms of either popular appreciation or critical acclaim. Art glossy Monopol instantly put Wagner on the front page. Art-Magazin called her the ‘absolute Newcomerin’. Der Tagesspiegel
- [The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/11/19/the-rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear/): Rally to restore sanity and/or fear
- [The New Weird Generation (II)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/01/06/the-new-weird-generation-ii/): In a previous post on The New Weird Generation I wrote that artists such as Antony Hegarty, Coco Rosie and Devendra Banhart perceive everyday life as alienating - as too rational, mature, artificial, technological, et cetera – and seek for authenticity by romanticizing the world (to paraphrase Novalis). Consider, for example, their longing for nature
- [The Young Berlin Artists](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/06/08/the-young-berlin-artists/): Over the last few decades, the international art scene has moved to Berlin. En masse. Inspired by cheap rents, massive spaces, and a high quality of life. But also by the plethora of myths of old and new. The city appears to be home to more art magazines and blogs, galleries and artists than the rest of Europe taken together. In recent years, exciting new galleries such as Galerie Tanja Wagner (which I think is catalyst and central to the movement I will discuss below), Galerie Torstrasse 161, PSM gallery, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Soy Capitan, and Pool Gallery have popped up around the city. They host young and promising artists like Sejla Kameric, Cyprien Gaillard, Nina Canell, Julieta Aranda, Amy Stein, Nina Konnema, Nathalie Djurberg, Guido van de Werve, Armin Boehm, Isabelle Fein, Mariechen Danz, Susanne Burner, and Oystein Aasan. Together, these galleries and artists form the Young Berlin Artists. Yup, the YBAs.
- [Jerry Saltz on to something?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/21/jerry-saltz-on-to-something/): Jerry Saltz is digging the decline of the postmodern and discerning the rise of something else... As he writes in a recent article in the NY Magazine: "I’m noticing a new approach to artmaking in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum’s “Younger Than Jesus” last year and ran through
- [Discreet luxury](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/08/31/discreet-luxury/): Looking at the figures from the last two or three years, it’s hard to ignore the industry’s fishtailing. Luxury has undergone a shift from its perennial link with status and iconicity towards quality, subtlety, and refinement. The writings on the wall had been there for some time actually, with buzzwords like heritage, craftsmanship, and eco-consciousness replacing loutish branding messages and a firm reliance on names before products.
- [New French Extremity: An Exigency for Reality ](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/08/14/new-french-extremity-an-exigency-for-reality/): Coined by critic James Quandt in 2004[i], the term New French Extremity refers to a selection of directors whose films embody a new aesthetic of naturalistic violence and symbolic transgression. France is the den of this movement, and the directors associated with it are François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Claire Denis, Patrice
- [Metamodernism goes geography](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/09/25/metamodernism-goes-geography/): 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.
- [Strategies of the metamodern](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/01/strategies-of-the-metamodern/): Strategies of the metamodern
- [The New Museum goes metamodern?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/19/the-new-museum-goes-metamodern/): The New Museum goes metamodern? Eu desejo o seu desejo / I Wish Your Wish (2003) is installed in the lobby gallery as part of the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other". Visitors are invited to select ribbons printed with a wish to tie around their wrists. When the ribbon falls off, tradition
- [Hard-boiled wonderland, blue velvet and the end of postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/09/23/hard-boiled-wonderland-from-pomo-to-metamo/): The demise of postmodernism and the rise of metamodernism - or, why David Lynch, Haruki Murakami and David Thorpe are not postmodern.
- [Hard and soft](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/16/hard-and-soft/): Metamodernism is about oscillation. One oscillation that has become particularly poignant of late is the oscillation between what might perhaps best be called ‘hardness’ and ‘softness’.
- [Duel is not a 'gimmick'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/02/03/duel-is-not-a-gimmick/): In Duel is not a 'gimmick' he analyses the representation of the Amsterdam art scene in two novels of the Dutch author Joost Zwagerman: Gimmick (1989) and Duel (2010). As he convincingly argues, the differences between these novels exemplify the shift from postmodernism to metamodernism.
- [The lunar tic](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/01/18/the-lunar-tic/): What’s up with us and the moon? Having ignored it for years, nay, centuries, keeping our eyes firmly to the ground, we have recently begun looking for it everywhere and anywhere. Obsessively, desperately almost. It is almost as if we suddenly grew worried that it might no longer be there. That we were afraid that the moon felt so unwanted it took off.
- [Jonathan Franzen's post-postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/08/21/jonathan-franzens-post-postmodernism/): very interesting review of Stephen Burns' Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism (2008), written by Tore Rye Anderson.
- [Photography as Metamodern Alchemy: the work of Stuart Bailes ](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/05/09/photography-a-metamodern-alchemy-the-work-of-stuart-bailes/): Adopting the role of artist as metamodern alchemist, the work of Stuart Bailes grounds us in the material world, whilst simultaneously leading us towards a path of poetic mysticism.
- [Ryan Gander's Locked Room Scenario](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/11/09/ryan-gander-locked-room-scenario/): Ryan Gander's Locked Room Scenario, an exhibition constructed within an exhibition, could most certainly be regarded as ‘meta’, but is there also a metamodernist sensibility at play?
- [Henrik Vibskov](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/30/henrik-vibskov/): The Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov doesn’t like to be pigeonholed. Besides designing four collections a year for both men and women, Vibskov plays drums in the live band of electronic musician Trentemøller and is part of The Fringe Project, together with visual artist Andreas Emenius. Everything Henrik Vibskov does has only one goal: to
- [Rodarte](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/08/rodarte/): Fashion is mostly an endless repetition of something you already have seen before. Season after season trends are recycled to awaken a new desire within the consumer, making fashion the ultimate post-modern expression. But every now and then someone tries to escape this endless cycle of repetitiveness. Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte have tried
- [Real Fiction (I)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/04/15/real-fiction-i/): post-postmodernism, metamodernism, literature, A.L. Kennedy, Original Bliss, Pynchon, The Crying Of Lot 49, real fiction, fiction, as if
- [Metamodern architecture](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/12/09/metamodern-architecture/): MONU #15 includes an new article by NoM founders Robin den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen. In 'Metamodern Architecture' they look into the ways in which the climate crisis, the financial crisis and the geopolitical crisis (will increasingly) affect contemporary ways of doing architecture.
- [Metamodernism at the MAD, NY](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/23/no-more-modern-notes-on-metamodernism-at-the-mad-ny/): From 15th November 2011 to the 15th of January 2012, the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) will host a small group exhibition dedicated to metamodernism: No more modern: Notes on metamodernism. The exhibition, curated by Jake Yuzna with the assistance of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, includes video performances by Pilvi Takala, Guido van der Werve, Mariechen Danz, and Benjamin Martin. Copies of Notes on metamodernism's foundational essay, 'Notes on metamodernism', first published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture in 2010, will be distributed freely.
- [TANK Magazine interviews Timotheus Vermeulen](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/02/23/tank-interviews-timotheus-vermeulen-about-metamodernism/): TANK Magazine has published an interview with Notes on metamodernism co-founder Timotheus Vermeulen. Vermeulen discusses the meaning of the term metamodernism, the geopolitical and financial crises, generational differences and artistic developments.
- [Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/08/02/spatial-agency-other-ways-of-doing-architecture/): Part of a wider research project into ‘Spatial Agency’, that includes an online database and map, the book sets out the theory and practice of these ‘other ways of doing architecture’ in four extended essays and documents, a partial lexicon and over 130 examples of these other practices. Across the essays the authors establish three main themes: that architecture should not only be left to architects; ethics should not be abandoned for aesthetics; spatial agency is open to multiple operations.
- [Quirky](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/13/quirky/): Quirky cinema
- [Architecture's New Terrain](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/01/25/landform-building-architectures-new-terrain/): Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain documents the influence and manifestations of both landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice that is resulting in not simply a “cross-disciplinary phenomenon” but new design techniques and formal strategies. It is edited by Stan Allen, Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and practicing architect in New York who
- [Russel Brand from mannerism to metamodernism?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/10/13/russel-brand-from-mannerism-to-metamodernism/): A remarkable bit of television on the BBC last week. Embodiment of the postmodern Russell Brand no longer wants to be postmodern. He professes to yearn for something else, something beyond irony, eclecticism, mannerisms, and the cult of celebrity. Something "truthful". Religious freak, metamodernist, or hypocrite? You decide. Revelation around 14th Minute.
- [Wes Anderson, tone, and the quirky sensibility](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/01/10/wes-anderson-tone-and-the-quirky-sensibility/): 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
- [Learning with Ulf Aminde](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/06/learning-with-ulf-aminde/): Abigail Christenson reviews Ulf Aminde's latest solo exhibition at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin.
- [Notes on Quirky](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/11/notes-on-quirky/): 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.
- [Sejla Kameric](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/12/selja-kameric-1/): Sejla Kameric analysis and contextualization
- [Ragnar Kjartansson](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/15/ragnar-kjartansson/): Ragnar Kjartansson review and contextualization
- [David Thorpe](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/20/david-thorpe-1/): David Thorpe analysis and contextualization
- [TIME's person of the year 2011](https://www.metamodernism.com/2012/01/04/times-person-of-the-year-2011/): TIME, they are a changing. After Newt Gingrich in 1995, GW Bush in 2000, and Bennie Bernanke in 2009, the TIME person of the year 2011 is... The Protester. As Kurt Andersen writes in his accompanying analysis: Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or
- [Some thoughts on the metamodern museum](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/11/19/experimentally-experiential-ambitions-some-thoughts-on-the-metamodern-museum/): As a lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, I recently taught an undergraduate course on Modernism. In addition to a class discussion on the discourse surrounding the museum of modern art, the participating students also visited the Van Abbemuseum
- ["Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the awesome."](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/04/11/serve-the-public-trust-protect-the-innocent-uphold-the-awesome/): The project to build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Michigan started out as a joke. To those of you unfamiliar with it, Robocop is a Paul Verhoeven film from 1987 that depicted a future Detroit ravaged by drugs, crime, and ruled by callous corporate overlords. It wasn’t any good, really, but there was something compelling about the movie’s star—a cop who is turned into a crime-fighting cybord after he is brutalized by Detroit’s scummiest scum. Over its 24 year lifespan it’s become something of a cult-classic, owing to lines like “I’d buy that for a dollar!” and its crude special effects. Today it’s a prominent example of “awesomely bad” popular culture, along with White Snake’s “Here I Go Again” and the TV show “Saved by the Bell”.
- [Domestic politics in metamodern times](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/10/26/domestic-politics-in-metamodern-times/): Domestic politics in metamodern times
- [Illuminating Language](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/09/29/illuminating-language/): Foer's novel 'Everything is illuminated' can easily be seen as your typical postmodern novel.However, I would argue that Foer also employs several post-postmodern strategies.
- [Paper addressed at Thinking in Unity Conference LMU Munich](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/11/15/einheitsdenken-nach-der-postmoderne/): Notes on metamodernism
- [Of heart and discourse](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/24/of-heart-and-discourse-a-response-to-the-joke-that-wasnt-funny-anymore/): Of heart and discourse: a response to 'The joke that wasn't funny anymore'. few days ago, Gry Rustad wrote about cynical, “bullying” irony (“the joke that wasn’t funny anymore”) falling to the wayside as comedy focused on “community” and delivered with (nearly) wholehearted warmth has taken its place. This same shift caught my eye a few years ago. Ever since Napoleon Dynamite...
- [CocoRosie](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/16/cocorosie/): Coco Rosie Review in light of metamodernism
- [Real Fiction (II)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/05/19/real-fiction-ii/): Ian McEwan, atonement, real fiction, as if, metamodernism, post-postmodernism, postmodernism, oscillation
- [Metamodernism at the Moscow biennale](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/09/07/no-more-modern-metamodernism-in-moscow-2/): The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, commencing 24 september, will run a cinematic program on metamodernism. Curated by Jake Yuzna, No More Modern: Notes on Metamodernism pairs recent video works by Mariechen Danz, Benjamin Martin, Sharyar Nashat and Pilvi Takala with free copies of our essay notes on metamodernism. Read further for full curatorial statement.
- [What meta means and does not mean](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/10/14/what-meta-means-and-does-not-mean/): What meta means and does not mean. The etymology of the term meta.
- [Notes on metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/10/24/notes-on-metamodernism/): Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker's foundational essay 'Notes on metamodernism' was published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture in October 2010. It opens thus: The ecosystem is severely disrupted, the financial system is increasingly uncontrollable, and the geopolitical structure has recently begun to appear as unstable as it has always been uneven. CEOs
- [Illuminating language (II)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/13/illuminating-language-2/): Everything is Illuminated. Following the ambivalent meaning of the title, it has opened our eyes for different kinds of illumination, in fact, has shed light on the character of illumination, by questioning the use of (complete) rational knowledge, pointing out the burden of clarity. This forced us to go beyond this meaning and look for an intensity that is reached in a non-rational way and that is, against intuition, positioned in the realm of darkness.
- [Douglas Rushkoff describes the metamodern generation](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/10/06/douglas-rushkoff-describes-the-metamodern-generation/): "Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase?", media theorist Douglas Rushkoff writes on CNN.com - "You don't get it." According to Rushkoff, the recent protests, demonstrations, bridge-ins, walk-ins and sit-ins are less exceptions to that old postmodern rule of compromise and capitalist exploitation liberal democracy than symptoms of a new paradigm.
- [The trick with the rabbit and the tricking rabbit](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/05/16/the-trick-with-the-rabbit-and-the-tricking-rabbit/): Advertising transcends its function as a managerial tool designed to influence consumption and also echoes, reproduces and taps into wider societal themes, values and trends. The debate and study of postmodern influences on marketing and its expression in advertising has gained a late momentum in the mid 1990s(1), though did not reach beyond being a vocal but fringe movement of the mainstream marketing field. With the main stream marketing academia being preoccupied by its largely positivistic (and modernist) outlook; almost unnoticed, expressions of the metamodern have sneaked through the scholastic magnifying glass.
- [Herzog & de Meuron (2)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/04/herzog-de-meuron/): Herzog and de Meuron and metamodernism
- [Herzog & de Meuron (1)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/05/herzog-de-meuron-1/): Herzog & de Meuron
- [Beyond Aftermaths](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/14/cfp-beyond-aftermaths/): 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
- [The New Weird Generation (I)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/09/08/the-new-weird-generation-part-1/): The new weird generation
- [Galerie Tanja Wagner opens its doors - onto the metamodern](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/09/16/galerie-tanja-wagner-opens-its-doors-onto-the-metamodern/): Galerie Tanja Wagner opens its doors onto the metamodern
- [Vectors of the Possible](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/09/18/vectors-of-the-possible/): A review of Vectors of the possible.
- [Etymology of the term metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/26/etymology-of-the-term-metamodernism/): The prefix 'meta' has acquired something of a bad rep over the last few years. It has come to be understood primarily in terms of self-reflection - i.e. a text about a text, a picture about a picture, etc. But 'meta' originally intends something rather more colloquial. According to the Greek-English Lexicon the preposition and
- [Financial Reform Bill](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/22/financial-reform-bill/): Last week the US Senate passed the Financial Reform Bill. After decades of Neoliberal deregulation, the legislation intends to re-regulate the free-floating financial system which was at the root of the 2008 crisis. Symbolically, therefore, the bill signals the end of the postmodern (late-capitalist) years of unbridled lending and unfettered trading. As CNN Money aptly
- [One Bryant Park, NYC](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/16/one-bryant-park-nyc/): Over the last few years it has become increasingly clear that contemporary architecture, like so many other aesthetic practices, is no longer postmodern. Although one could also point towards somewhat more stylistic changes (and we will definitely do so in later posts), the end of the postmodern is most clearly signaled here by the return
- [Introduction to metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/15/introduction-to-metamodernism/): Introduction to the website Notes on metamodernism
- [Bjarke Ingels Group (I)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/01/14/bjarke-ingels-group-i/): Although the Bjarke Ingels Group (2006) is a relatively young architectural practice - younger, in fact, than Facebook - it has rapidly acquired quite a name for itself and has already won numerous competitions, awards and prices. Its founder Bjarke Ingels (1974) has of late dominated magazine covers, editorials and headlines and is the 2010
- [The fall of the PI(I)GS](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/11/23/the-fall-of-the-piigs/): Fall of the PIIGS
- [The Limits of Postmodern Theory (from a gaming perspective)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/11/07/the-limits-of-postmodern-theory-from-a-gaming-perspective/): Limits of postmodern theory: gaming perspective
- [Best Coast](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/07/27/best-coast/): Best Coast Review
- [Architecture after postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/06/30/vinoly-on-architecture-after-postmodernism/): When we found out that starchitect Rafael Vinoly accepted an invitation from the Museum of the City of New York to discuss the state of architecture after postmodernism we were obviously intrigued. Somehow we were hoping that the outspoken Vinoly would offer some clues as to where twenty-first century architecture is going aesthetically and perhaps
- [The joke that wasn't funny anymore...](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/10/the-joke-that-wasnt-funny-anymore/): Gry Rustad concludes that shows like Community, Parks and Recreation and Modern Family are markedly different from shows like Seinfeld, Family Guy and Arrested Development. The difference? Heart. A yearning for connection, affect and meaning...
- [Democratising the statement of fact](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/05/05/democratising-the-statement-of-fact/): sayable, visible, statement of fact, modernism, postmodernism, post-postmodernism
- [Mobile Men](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/29/mobile-men/): A discussion of Apichatpong Weerasethakul' Mobile Men
- [James Franco](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/26/james-franco/): e can’t be serious. James Franco has recently emerged from being an actor with a cult following (with roles in television and film ranging from Freaks and Geeks to Spider-Man to Eat, Pray, Love) to an artist that counts acting among his many other interests: Franco has seemingly become a super-charged, professional dilettante
- [The Fountain - A call to discussion](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/09/05/the-fountain-a-call-to-discussion/): The Fountain - A call to discussion
- [Lucas Ossendrijver and the Sensible](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/11/lucas-ossendrijver-and-the-sensible-3/): 'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye’, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his famous novel “Le Petit Prince”. The same can be said of Lucas Ossendrijver’s designs for Lanvin Homme. While from the outset his work has been turning-heads and singular in a number
- [The wondrous post of Anis Shivani](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/15/the-wondrous-post-of-anis-shivani/): The wondrous post of Anis Shivani
- ['Idiot Wind'](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/06/idiot-wind/): In its latest issue, the acclaimed online journal for the arts, e-flux, looks into our crisis-ridden moment, and its relation to current affairs and contemporary aesthetics. In the aptly titled Idiot Wind: On the rise of Right-Wing Populism in the US and Europe, and What it Means for Contemporary Art, the editors gathered a series of dispatches from the frontline between politics and art - from the US and the UK to Germany and Austria and from Denmark and Holland to France and Spain. For whoever is interested (and we imagine that our regular readers certainly are) it is most definitely worth the while. So please do take your time to read the abundantly illustrated, inspired and, by times, angry reports.
- [Metamodern fables](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/25/metamodern-fables/): Upon entering Nathalie Djurberg's (1978) exhibition (Boijmans, 2011) one cannot avoid a sense of bewilderment. Set up around stop-motion claymation video’s of mostly naked figures dancing delightedly, flirting intimately and toying tenderly with the most gruesome of animals or each other, the exhibition seems to travel some well-trodden grounds. All too familiar themes such as
- [Small scale, big change](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/18/small-scale-big-change-exhibition-moma/): Between October 3rd, 2010 and January 3rd, 2011, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York held an exhibition entitled 'Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement'. The show presented eleven projects, across five continents, and sought to highlight both the social commitment of the architects (and others) involved and the functinonal,
- [Bjarke Ingels (II) - at Warpspeed](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/04/04/bjarke-ingels-ii-at-warpspeed/): metamodernism, post-postmodernism, architecture, sustainable, Bjarke Ingels, BIG, mountain house, maritime youth house, zira island
- [Il faut être absolument metamoderne!](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/02/01/il-faut-etre-absolument-metamoderne/): At the end of the nineteenth century, the French writer Arthur Rimbaud urged us to be modern, nothing but modern, with a phrase that was as idiomatic as it was programmatic: “Il faut être absolument moderne” (1873). Recently, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, known for his non-conformist critique of postmodern relativism, took up the challenge to
- [Artificial Landscapes (I)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/05/27/artificial-landscapes-i/): Nicole Aarts is writing her MFA Thesis on metamodernism and artificial landscapes at the Fontys University for Applied Sciences in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Her research includes the work of among others Ochoa, Sigurdardottir, Fischer, and Eliasson (see below). Any further suggestions? Contact us at mtmdrn at gmail dot com.
- [The Hepworth Wakefield](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/06/15/the-hepworth-wakefield/): Hepworth, Wakefield, architecture, metamodernism, post-postmodernism, David Chipperfield, regeneration
- [The Observer on to something?](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/05/23/the-observer-on-to-something/): Vannessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent for The Observer, perceives a new generation of artists turning its back on the by now anachronistic YBAs. "As some of the former rebels of the notorious Young British Artist movement are accused of selling out to "the establishment", a new generation is taking their place, flaunting an altogether
- ["Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!"](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/07/26/full-hearts-and-teary-eyes/): Rather than displaying despair and cynicism these new shows highlight the sincere and the earnest. This is not to say that these dramas do not take their characters down dark and disconcerting roads, they do, but they do so with a profound sense of warmth and empathy for their characters.
- [Reality Monger](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/08/15/reality-monger/): it’s hard to “review” the book or render a judgement regarding its success or failure. It’s a notebook of interests, preoccupations, aphorisms, and facts. Some of it is delightful to read--the literary montage works especially well in conveying the epistemological and sociological complexities of faux-memoirs (A Million Little Pieces receives the most attention), along with the boundary between fiction/non-fiction. Where it leaves you wanting is--wait for it--coherence. There are no revelations waiting in the book, aside from those that are jarred loose in your own mind by the procession of pith, charm, deep thought, and irreverence.
- [Notes on metamodernism is one year old!](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/07/15/notes-on-metamodernism-is-one-year-old/): 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
- [Return to Innocence (?)](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/04/28/return-to-innocence/): Probably fashion’s best kept secret of last year, Tom Ford’s first women’s collection, launched in June. It was a surprise to many. Like a sun-bather’s pool party and inspired by the breezy spirits of a 1960s David Hockney-like California, he presented a range of pieces made from delicate fabrics in carefully chosen colours that were dotted with metallic finishes and his trademark smart detailing. Even more breath-taking than the clothes, however, were the presentation and chosen location. From floors that were inlaid with the brand initials in high-polish shiny brass to the half-lit, painfully chic atmosphere, every detail of the show had been taken care of with razor-sharp precision. Beyond its overt features, however, the show also re-enacted a number of subtle undercurrents most had thought were buried somewhere deep down in fashion history.
- [Charles LeDray](https://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/02/charles-ledray/): On first impression, Charles LeDray’s work in his recent mid-career retrospective, “Workworkworkworkwork,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, could be described as, for lack of a better word, cute. LeDray’s work is largely comprised of thousands of miniatures: suits, ceramic vessels, magazines, beds, books. The detritus of urban life. Adding to this characterization is the curious biographical detail that LeDray, who previously worked as a security guard at the Seattle Art Museum, is a largely self-taught artist with his sewing skills apparently learned from his mother. However, the longer one stays at the exhibition, the more a curious sense of disorientation sets in
- [By way of an update, sort of...](https://www.metamodernism.com/2010/12/01/by-way-of-an-update-sort-of/): Metamodernism has relocated. We briefly want to explain you what is where

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- [Ongoing Research](https://www.metamodernism.com/ongoing-research/): Notes on metamodernism was conceived, from the outset, as the digital companion to a scholarly research programme. Indeed, much of the editorial board came together organically during conferences and symposia, and the webzine’s first few iterations coincided with the publication of a first academic article, unoriginally also titled Notes on Metamodernism. In the subsequent years, as the
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## Tags

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- [contemporary aesthetics](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/contemporary-aesthetics/)
- [postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/postmodernism/): Epoch in the arts (1970-1990) defined by a radical questioning of absolute truth and metaphysical key concepts which led to relativism, apathy and ironic distancing.
- [metamodern](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/metamodern/)
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- [Jerry Saltz](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/jerry-saltz/)
- [PS1](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/ps1/)
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- [prefix](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/prefix/)
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- [Romantic Conceptualism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/romantic-conceptualism/)
- [Performatism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/performatism/): Theory on post-postmodernism in literature, film, art and architecture developed by Raoul Eshelman. Defined as “an epoch in which a unified concept of sign and strategies of closure have begun to compete directly with – and displace – the split concept of sign and the strategies of boundary transgression typical of postmodernism.”
- [Mariechen Danz](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mariechen-danz/)
- [Quirky](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/quirky/)
- [Justine Kurland](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/justine-kurland/)
- [Freak Folk](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/freak-folk/): Musical genre that is the result of a recent folk revival. Steps away from an angry or apathetic attitude and moves towards hope and desire.
- [modernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/modernism/): Cultural epoch from the end of the 19th century until the first part of the 20th century. Heavily influenced by cultural changes and events, like the World Wars, rapid technological development and the city as new living space. Characterized by an array of avantgardistic movements in the arts (surrealism, expressionism…).
- [Herzog and de Meuron](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/herzog-and-de-meuron/)
- [Rodarte](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/rodarte/)
- [naivety](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/naivety/)
- [Darren Almond](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/darren-almond/)
- [Childlike](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/childlike/)
- [Anis Shivani](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/anis-shivani/): Contributor for the Huffington Post
- [poetry](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/poetry/)
- [Rivane Neuschwander](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/rivane-neuschwander/)
- [wish](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/wish/)
- [New Museum](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/new-museum/)
- [BRIC](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/bric/)
- [economy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/economy/)
- [star persona](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/star-persona/)
- [sincerity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/sincerity/): Forthright expression; affect. May be alloyed with irony, depending on the context. One of the key modalities of the metamodern.
- [James Franco](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/james-franco/)
- [Romanticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/romanticism/)
- [Henrik Vibskov](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/henrik-vibskov/)
- [Darren Aranofsky](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/darren-aranofsky/)
- [metaxy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/metaxy/)
- [New Weird Generation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/new-weird-generation/): Describes music artists like Coco Rosie and Antony Hegarty who employ folk music to express a longing for nature and authenticity. They also use techniques associated with New Romanticism.
- [authenticity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/authenticity/)
- [Paula Doepfner](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/paula-doepfner/)
- [Issa Sant](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/issa-sant/)
- [Galerie Tanja Wagner](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/galerie-tanja-wagner/): Gallery in Berlin that is interested in young, female artists who can offer a refreshing perspective on cultural issues.
- [Angelika J. Trojnarski](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/angelika-j-trojnarski/)
- [the possible](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-possible/)
- [Gregory Crewdson](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/gregory-crewdson/)
- [David Lynch](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-lynch/)
- [Haruki Murakami](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/haruki-murakami/)
- [Roberto Bolano](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/roberto-bolano/)
- [Russel Brand](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/russel-brand/)
- [Charles Avery](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/charles-avery/)
- [Bas Jan Ader](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/bas-jan-ader/): Dutch artist working in the sixties and seventies whose work explored the parameters of the (im)possible. One of the predecessors of the metamodern attitude.
- [Sejla Kameric](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/sejla-kameric/)
- [Mona Hatoum](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mona-hatoum/)
- [End of history](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/end-of-history/)
- [Gaming](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/gaming/)
- [Rally to restore sanity and/or fear](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear/): Rally initiated by John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Seemingly humorous and ironic on the surface, it led to a spirited political engagement, unseen in postmodern times.
- [Jon Stewart](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/jon-stewart/)
- [Steven Colbert](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/steven-colbert/)
- [PIIGS](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/piigs/)
- [financial crisis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/financial-crisis/)
- [BRICS](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/brics/)
- [FAQ](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/faq/)
- [Apichatpong Weerasethakul](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/apichatpong-weerasethakul/): Thai filmmaker whose films go against western ways of story-telling.
- [Mobile Men](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mobile-men/)
- [Transparancy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/transparancy/)
- [Freedom](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/freedom/)
- [post-postmodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/post-postmodernism/): Term that is used to define an epoch postioned after postmodernism and that tries to imagine a going “beyond” postmodern aesthetics.
- [BIG](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/big/)
- [Bjarke Ingels](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/bjarke-ingels/)
- [Yes is More](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/yes-is-more/)
- [Thom Browne](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/thom-browne/)
- [meta](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/meta/)
- [mannerism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mannerism/)
- [eclecticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/eclecticism/)
- [digimodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/digimodernism/)
- [altermodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/altermodernism/)
- [capitalism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/capitalism/)
- [Devendra Banhart](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/devendra-banhart/)
- [Antony Hegarty](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/antony-hegarty/)
- [Anatole Kaletsky](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/anatole-kaletsky/)
- [John Ashbery](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/john-ashbery/)
- [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/jonathan-safran-foer/): American author whose novels challenge the conception of seemingly postmodern narrative styles. Also, one of the few authors who takes a reconcillatory approach towards the potrayal of the Holocaust in literature.
- [Sjaak Hullekes](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/sjaak-hullekes/)
- [camp](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/camp/)
- [gender](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/gender/)
- [masculinity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/masculinity/)
- [tragedy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/tragedy/)
- [Alain Finkielkraut](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/alain-finkielkraut/)
- [E-Flux](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/e-flux/)
- [Brian Holmes](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/brian-holmes/)
- [Populism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/populism/)
- [Post-Irony](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/post-irony/)
- [Arrested Development](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/arrested-development/): Cult FOX Multicamera sitcom featuring Jason Bateman and Michael Cera that was taken off air too soon.
- [Modern Family](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/modern-family/): American television comedy series that embraces the idea of a complicated family life that is still functional and loving.
- [Community](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/community/): American television comedy series characterized by a shift of tone. Its humour is not sarcastic and distanced but rather warm and humanistic.
- [Parks and Recreation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/parks-and-recreation/): American television comedy series centered around a naive over-achiever who has a child-like obsession for parks.
- [affect](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/affect/)
- [Steve Coogan](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/steve-coogan/)
- [Top Gear](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/top-gear/)
- [Harald Eia](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/harald-eia/)
- [comedy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/comedy/)
- [MoMA](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/moma/)
- [small scale big change exhibtion](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/small-scale-big-change-exhibtion/)
- [The Office](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-office/): American television comedy series that takes place in a paper company run by lovable nerds and outsiders.
- [Charles Ledray](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/charles-ledray/)
- [ceramics](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/ceramics/)
- [work](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/work/)
- [Cyprien Gaillard](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/cyprien-gaillard/)
- [Nathalie Djurberg](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/nathalie-djurberg/)
- [Bjarke Ingels Group](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/bjarke-ingels-group/)
- [Robocop](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/robocop/): The titular hero of an ‘awesomely bad’ action film from 1987. He is half man, half robot, and 100% awesome. Look for a statue of him in Detroit.
- [Twitter](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/twitter/)
- [network](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/network/)
- [as if](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/as-if/)
- [Tom Ford](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/tom-ford/)
- [Womenswear](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/womenswear/)
- [change](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/change/)
- [innocence](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/innocence/)
- [advertising](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/advertising/)
- [Young Berlin Artists](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/young-berlin-artists/)
- [Young British Artists](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/young-british-artists/)
- [techne](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/techne/)
- [engagement](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/engagement/)
- [Nina Canell](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/nina-canell/)
- [Pilvi Takala](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/pilvi-takala/)
- [Frauke Boggasch](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/frauke-boggasch/)
- [david chipperfield](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-chipperfield/)
- [love](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/love/): Metaphysical concept that has experienced a comeback in the arts in a careful but non-ironic way.
- [commons](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/commons/)
- [spatial agency](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/spatial-agency/)
- [optimism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/optimism/)
- [Benjamin Martin](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/benjamin-martin/)
- [Sharyar Nashat](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/sharyar-nashat/)
- [rococo conceptualism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/rococo-conceptualism/)
- [collaborative](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/collaborative/)
- [systems](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/systems/)
- [contingency](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/contingency/)
- [autodidacticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/autodidacticism/)
- [Klassekampen](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/klassekampen/)
- [Olafur Eliasson](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/olafur-eliasson/)
- [Wes Anderson](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/wes-anderson/)
- [Ulf Aminde](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/ulf-aminde/)
- [Learning](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/learning/)
- [Hope](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/hope/)
- [Occupy Wall Street](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/occupy-wall-street/)
- [Douglas Rushkoff](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/douglas-rushkoff/)
- [CNN](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/cnn/)
- [metamodern generation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/metamodern-generation/)
- [open source](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/open-source/)
- [#occupy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/occupy/)
- [No more modern: notes on metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/no-more-modern-notes-on-metamodernism/)
- [Guido van der Werve](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/guido-van-der-werve/)
- [Museum of Art and Design](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/museum-of-art-and-design/)
- [Jane Campion](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/jane-campion/)
- [historical film](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/historical-film/)
- [period films](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/period-films/)
- [costume dramas](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/costume-dramas/)
- [nostalgia](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/nostalgia/)
- [bright star](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/bright-star/)
- [History](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/history/)
- [Kant](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/kant/)
- [clusterfuck aesthetic](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/clusterfuck-aesthetic/)
- [Ryan Gander](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/ryan-gander/)
- [Mike Kelley](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mike-kelley/)
- [spoilers](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/spoilers/)
- [quotidian sublime](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/quotidian-sublime/)
- [whodunnit](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/whodunnit/)
- [Locked Room Scenario](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/locked-room-scenario/)
- [miranda july](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/miranda-july/): Amerian filmmaker, actress, writer and musician.
- [capitalism 4.0](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/capitalism-4-0/)
- [craftmanship](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/craftmanship/)
- [structure of feeling](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/structure-of-feeling/)
- [credit crisis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/credit-crisis/)
- [climate crisis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/climate-crisis/)
- [geopolitical crisis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/geopolitical-crisis/)
- [Museology](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/museology/)
- [Museum Studies](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/museum-studies/)
- [Van Abbe Museum](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/van-abbe-museum/)
- [Aesthetics](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/aesthetics/)
- [Charles Jencks](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/charles-jencks/)
- [Peter Zumthor](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/peter-zumthor/)
- [Snohetta](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/snohetta/)
- [Caruso St. John](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/caruso-st-john/)
- [CocoRosie](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/cocorosie/): Musical duo. With a blend of nursery rhymes, hip hop and opera they create magical fairy tales.
- [TIME person of the year](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/time-person-of-the-year/)
- [Protester](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/protester/)
- [awesome](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/awesome/): A term used within popular culture to bridge the traditional divides between the beautiful and the sublime. Often serves as a rallying cry around a particular moment, figure, or concept charged with affect.
- [1Q84](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/1q84/)
- [Moon](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/moon/)
- [kynicism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/kynicism/)
- [Movie: A Journal for Film Criticism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/movie-a-journal-for-film-criticism/)
- [James MacDowell](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/james-macdowell/)
- [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/)
- [Landform Building](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/landform-building/)
- [Stan Allen](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/stan-allen/)
- [Marc McQuade](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/marc-mcquade/)
- [Duncan Jones](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/duncan-jones/)
- [Mystery](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/mystery/)
- [Zwagerman](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/zwagerman/)
- [literature](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/literature/)
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- [Feature](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/feature/)
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- [unity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/unity/)
- [family](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/family/)
- [Tank Magazine](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/tank-magazine/)
- [Timotheus Vermeulen](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/timotheus-vermeulen/)
- [New Girl](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/new-girl/)
- [Feminism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/feminism/)
- [Zooey Deschanel](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/zooey-deschanel/)
- [Post-feminism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/post-feminism/)
- [Yael Bartana](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/yael-bartana/)
- [Monica Bonvicini](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/monica-bonvicini/)
- [Annabel Daou](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/annabel-daou/)
- [Andy Holden](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/andy-holden/)
- [Kris Lemsalu](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/kris-lemsalu/)
- [Luke Turner](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/luke-turner/)
- [Discussing Metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/discussing-metamodernism/)
- [Robin van den Akker](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/robin-van-den-akker/)
- [Berlin Art Journal](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/berlin-art-journal/)
- [David Thorpe and Angelika J. Trojnarski](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-thorpe-and-angelika-j-trojnarski/)
- [Nastja Rönkkö](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/nastja-ronkko/)
- [multiculturalism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/multiculturalism/)
- [debate](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/debate/)
- [liberalism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/liberalism/)
- [Gary Numan](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/gary-numan/)
- [romantic irony](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/romantic-irony/)
- [Asperger's Syndrome](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/aspergers-syndrome/)
- [disability studies](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/disability-studies/)
- [discourse](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/discourse/)
- [reconstruction](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/reconstruction/)
- [photography](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/photography/)
- [Stuart Bailes](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/stuart-bailes/)
- [alchemy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/alchemy/)
- [exhibition](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/exhibition/)
- [national borders](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/national-borders/)
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- [globalisation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/globalisation/)
- [Giorgio Agamben](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/giorgio-agamben/)
- [The New Museum Triennial](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-new-museum-triennial/)
- [The Ungovernables](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-ungovernables/)
- [Kemang Wa Lehulere](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/kemang-wa-lehulere/)
- [Abigail Deville](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/abigail-deville/)
- [Doa Aly](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/doa-aly/)
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- [Literary Theory](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/literary-theory/)
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- [Terry Gilliam](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/terry-gilliam/)
- [Repositioning](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/repositioning/)
- [Leap of Faith](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/leap-of-faith/)
- [The New Aesthetic](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-new-aesthetic/)
- [speculative realism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/speculative-realism/)
- [object-oriented ontology](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/object-oriented-ontology/)
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- [Hila Shachar](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/hila-shachar/)
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- [Wuthering Heights](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/wuthering-heights/)
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- [screen adaptations](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/screen-adaptations/)
- [New Extremity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/new-extremity/)
- [Francois Ozon](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/francois-ozon/)
- [Gaspar Noe](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/gaspar-noe/)
- [Catherine Breillat](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/catherine-breillat/)
- [Claire Denis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/claire-denis/)
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- [Berlin Biennale](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/berlin-biennale/)
- [Manifesta](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/manifesta/)
- [Artur Zmijevski](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/artur-zmijevski/)
- [Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/carolyn-christov-bakargiev/)
- [Metropolis M](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/metropolis-m/)
- [Subject](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/subject/)
- [Auhorship](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/auhorship/)
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- [Foucault](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/foucault/)
- [Referent](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/referent/)
- [David Foster Wallace](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-foster-wallace/)
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- [New Sincerity](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/new-sincerity/)
- [David Raymond Conroy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-raymond-conroy/)
- [Improvisation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/improvisation/)
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- [Kim Levin](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/kim-levin/)
- [Clemens J. Setz](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/clemens-j-setz/)
- [The Frequencies](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-frequencies/)
- [narrative](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/narrative/)
- [Benh Zeitlin](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/benh-zeitlin/)
- [Frieze](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/frieze/)
- [Stedelijk Museum](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/stedelijk-museum/)
- [Jess Littlewood](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/jess-littlewood/)
- [utopia](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/utopia/)
- [geodesic domes](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/geodesic-domes/)
- [Google Images](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/google-images/)
- [period film](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/period-film/)
- [television](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/television/)
- [Howards End](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/howards-end/)
- [Post-Internet](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/post-internet/)
- [Photoshop](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/photoshop/)
- [Novalis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/novalis/)
- [Zen](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/zen/)
- [Magic](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/magic/)
- [Notes on Metamodernism](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/notes-on-metamodernism/)
- [Foreign Theoretical Trends](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/foreign-theoretical-trends/)
- [Chen Houliang](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/chen-houliang/)
- [Robert Musil](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/robert-musil/)
- [Infinite Jest](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/infinite-jest/)
- [The Man Without Qualities](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/the-man-without-qualities/)
- [dystopia](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/dystopia/)
- [Liberal Democracy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/liberal-democracy/)
- [Crisis](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/crisis/)
- [Territory](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/territory/)
- [representation](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/representation/)
- [David Blandy](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/david-blandy/)
- [Richard T. Walker](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/richard-t-walker/)
- [sublime](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/sublime/)
- [videogames](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/videogames/)
- [landscape](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/landscape/)
- [quest](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/quest/)
- [Stephen Knudsen](https://www.metamodernism.com/tag/stephen-knudsen/)
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