Metamodernism Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism
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Biografisk notat
Robin van den Akker is Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University College Rotterdam. Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University. Timotheus Vermeulen is Associate Professor in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo.If youâre in the market for a slick, shiny new aesthetic of the post-post or the meta-, you wonât find it here â but you wonât find it anywhere else, either, because it doesnât exist. If, however, you genuinely want to understand the âsticky messâ (in JĂśrg Heiserâs phrase) that the new cultural practices are in the very process of emerging from, then you owe it to yourself to give this volume your fullest attention.
- Brian McHale, Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor at The Ohio State University, Author of "Postmodernist Fiction" (1987) and "The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism" (2015),
Metamodernism is the best collection of essays on our timeâs most notable cultural development: the turning of postmodernism into something else. The projectâs heart is van den Akker and Vermeulenâs 2008 milestone essay âNotes on Metamodernism,â which beats across a volume bringing together Alison Gibbons, Lee Konstantinou, Josh Toth, James MacDowell, Raoul Eshelman, and other distinguished critics of the contemporary.
- Christian Moraru, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina,
In 2002, Linda Hutcheon famously announced the end of postmodernism. What has been happening in the areas of arts, culture, aesthetics, and politics ever since? Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism provides an answer to this question. The book is truly impressive in terms of both its theoretical scope and the discussion of representative examples of metamodernism.
- Jan Alber, President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative,
I hope this book becomes required reading for scholars and think tanks, or any students studying postmodernism and beyond, so we could at least adopt a common âlanguageâ (as they describe it) to reduce the excessive redundancy and conict in academia and contemporary social thought. This is what the âprinciple of abstractionâ from computer science does, and is much needed in our cultural programming.
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