Term that is used to define an epoch postioned after postmodernism and that tries to imagine a going “beyond” postmodern aesthetics.
In 2008 the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, recently winner of the Palm d`Or for his film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, participated in a campaign that was initialized to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Weerasethakul`s contribution was a four-minute segment called Mobile Men. In this segment …
Some of our colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, are organizing an promising symposium on post-postmodernism and trauma and asked us to spread the word. Among the speakers are Raoul Eshelman and Hans Bertens. We hope to feature a brief conference report later this month. Beyond Aftermaths: Contemporary (Post-)Postmodernism in the Shadow of the Twentieth Century, 21-22 …
As you will have noticed, Notes on metamodernism has undergone some changes of late. For one, we have relocated from mtmdrn.blogspot.com to metamodernism.com. We have also transferred all of our archives. Thus, if you are looking for one blogpost or topic in particular, say Timotheus Vermeulen’s Hard boiled wonderland – from pomo to metamo, you …
The postmodern years 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 …
Over the last few months, there has been much discussion online as well as at parties, galleries and conferences, about the meaning of the prefix meta- in metamodernism. Now, of course, each and everyone is free to define, re-appropriate and use it in any one fashion. Metamodernism as a term – but not as a …
The modern is associated with politics as diverse as utopism, formalism, functionalism, seriality, art for art’s sake, the flaneur, syntaxis, restlessness, alienation, streams of consciousness, the cinematic apparatus, cubism, Reason, trauma, mass production, and schizophrenia. The postmodern tends to be associated with strategies as varied as dystopism, late capitalist flexibilisation, the ‘end of history’, formalism, …
