Metamodernism
Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2017
260 pages
978-1-78348-962-6 (ISBN)
Description
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social, technological and economic developments, the volume provides both a map and an itinerary of today's metamodern cultural landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric Jameson's canonical arguments about the waning of historicity, affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context. In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the metamodern cultural moment.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-78348-962-6 (9781783489626)
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Robin van den Akker | Alison Gibbons
Metamodernism
Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism
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12/2017
Rowman & Littlefield International
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Periodising the 2000s, or, the emergence of metamodernism, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen
Section I: Historicity
2. Metamodern Historicity, Robin van den Akker
3. The metamodern, the quirky, and the challenge of categorization, James MacDowell
4. Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction, Josh Toth
5. Super-hybridity: Non-simultaneity, political power, and multipolar conflict, Jorg Heiser
6. The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Section II: Affect
7. Metamodern Affect, Alison Gibbons
8. Four Faces of Post-Irony, Lee Konstantinou
9. Radical Defenselessness: A new sense of self in the work of David Foster Wallace, Nicoline Timmer
10. Contemporary Autofiction and Affect, Alison Gibbons
11. The Joke that Wasn't funny anymore: Empathy in Contemporary Sitcoms, Gry Rustad and Kai Schwind
Section III: Depth
12. Metamodern Depth or 'Depthiness', Timotheus Vermeulen
13. Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility, Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk
14. Between truth, sincerity and satire: Post-truth politics and the rhetoric of authenticity, Sam Browse
15. Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing beauty and transcendence after postmodernism, Raoul Eshelman
Epilogue
16. Thoughts on writing about art after postmodernism, James Elkins
References
Index
Contributor Information
1. Periodising the 2000s, or, the emergence of metamodernism, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen
Section I: Historicity
2. Metamodern Historicity, Robin van den Akker
3. The metamodern, the quirky, and the challenge of categorization, James MacDowell
4. Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction, Josh Toth
5. Super-hybridity: Non-simultaneity, political power, and multipolar conflict, Jorg Heiser
6. The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Section II: Affect
7. Metamodern Affect, Alison Gibbons
8. Four Faces of Post-Irony, Lee Konstantinou
9. Radical Defenselessness: A new sense of self in the work of David Foster Wallace, Nicoline Timmer
10. Contemporary Autofiction and Affect, Alison Gibbons
11. The Joke that Wasn't funny anymore: Empathy in Contemporary Sitcoms, Gry Rustad and Kai Schwind
Section III: Depth
12. Metamodern Depth or 'Depthiness', Timotheus Vermeulen
13. Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility, Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk
14. Between truth, sincerity and satire: Post-truth politics and the rhetoric of authenticity, Sam Browse
15. Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing beauty and transcendence after postmodernism, Raoul Eshelman
Epilogue
16. Thoughts on writing about art after postmodernism, James Elkins
References
Index
Contributor Information
