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 …
Architects, we wrote in a previous post, struggle to find an aesthetics proper to the metamodern structure of feeling. A particularly interesting exception to this rule is the office of Herzog & de Meuron. ‘In some ways’, we observed: Herzog & de Meuron have always, through-out their careers, attempted to find formal alternatives to architectural …
As you will have noticed, Notes on metamodernism has undergone some changes of late. For one, we have relocated from mtmdrn.blogspot.com to metamodernism.com. We have also transferred all of our archives. Thus, if you are looking for one blogpost or topic in particular, say Timotheus Vermeulen’s Hard boiled wonderland – from pomo to metamo, you …
A new era comes with new acronyms for new phenomena. We have already commented on the rise of the BRICs, which is an apt shorthand for Brasil, Russia, India and China, the economic powers to be (or that be). Yet there are also less flattering acronyms around. What to think of the PI(I)GS, for example. It …
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 and Politicians express their ‘desire for change’ at every interview, voice a heartfelt ‘yes we can’ at each photo-op. Planners and architects increasingly replace their blueprints …
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The postmodern years have been marked by a slow but steady development towards political stability and economic prosperity, at least from a western perspective. After the turmoil of the 1960s and, to a lesser extent, the 1970s and, to a much lesser extent, the 1980s, the 1990s might be described, in the words of Charles …
