Van den Akker R., Gibbons A., Vermeulen T.T. (eds.) Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism

Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017. — 260 p. — (Radical cultural studies, 7). — ISBN: 978-1-7834-8962-6.This book 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.List of Figures and Table
AcknowledgementsPeriodising the 2000s, or, the Emergence of Metamodernism
Robin van den Akker and Timotheus VermeulenHistoricity
Metamodern Historicity
Robin van den Akker
The Metamodern, the Quirky and Film Criticism
James MacDowell
Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction
Josh Toth
Super-Hybridity: Non-Simultaneity, Myth-Making and Multipolar Conflict
Jörg Heiser
The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts
Sjoerd van TuinenAffect
Metamodern Affect
Alison Gibbons
Four Faces of Postirony
Lee Konstantinou
Radical Defenselessness: A New Sense of Self in the Work of David Foster Wallace
Nicoline Timmer
Contemporary Autofiction and Metamodern Affect
Alison Gibbons
The Joke That Wasn’t Funny Anymore: Reflections on the Metamodern Sitcom
Gry C. Rustad and Kai Hanno SchwindDepth
Metamodern Depth, or ‘Depthiness’
Timotheus Vermeulen
Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility
Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk
Between Truth, Sincerity and Satire: Post-Truth Politics and the Rhetoric of Authenticity
Sam Browse
Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing Beauty and Transcendence after Postmodernism
Raoul EshelmanEpilogue
Thoughts on Writing about Art after Postmodernism
James ElkinsReferences

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