metamodernism
English
Etymology
meta- + modernism, introduced in 2010 by cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker.
Noun
metamodernism (uncountable)
- A movement combining elements of modernism and postmodernism.
- Coordinate terms: modernism, postmodernism, post-postmodernism
- 2017, Andrew Shenton, Arvo Pärt's Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 264:
- 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, the […]
- 2018, William B. Parsons, Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s), Routledge (→ISBN)
- 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) and by others with […]
Derived terms
Further reading
metamodernism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
