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metamodernism en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta- + modernism, introduced in 2010 by Dutch cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A movement combining elements of modernism and postmodernism.
    • Metamodernism's genealogy and its earliest ideological underpinnings are contested. It is located by some as stemming from Frederic Jameson and his criticism of postmodern fragmentation and late capitalism (1984) […] 2018, William B. Parsons, Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s), Routledge, →ISBN:
    • An ideal framework is the term metamodernism given to us by two Dutch philosophers, Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, who argue that “postmodern is merely the 'catchphrase' for a multiplicity of contradictory tendencies, […] 2017, Andrew Shenton, Arvo Pärt's Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264:
    • Metamodernism is one of a variety of attempts to identify a perceptible shift in aesthetic practice and ethical outlook developing in the twenty-first century and it can be seen to be in dialogue with both modernism and postmodernism. 2018 October 3, Nick Bentley, “Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern”, in English Studies, volume 99, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 723–743:

Coordinates

modernism · postmodernism · post-postmodernism

Deriveds

metamodern · metamodernist

Relateds

New Sincerity