User:Fredrik holmsted/Metamodernism

In 2010 the cultural philosophers Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker introduced the term metamodernism [29] to describe the current structure of feeling. They assert that the 2000s are at once characterized by the return of a typically modern desire for sens and the persistence of a rather postmodern doubt about the sense of it all. As examples they cite the 'informed naivety' of the multiple responses to climate change, the 'pragmatic idealism' of the restructuring of the financial system, and the 'moderate fanaticism' of the disintegration of the political centre (the return to 'right' and 'left'), as well as the return of transcendentalism, Romanticism, hope, sincerity, affect, narrativity, and the figurative sublime in the arts.

For Vermeulen and van den Akker cultural practices as varied as the architecture of BIG and Herzog and de Meuron, the cinema of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson, the artworks of Peter Doig, Olafur Eliasson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sejla Kameric and Paula Doepfner, and the writings of Haruki Murakami, Roberto Bolano and Jonathan Franzen are each typified by a continuous oscillation, a constant repositioning [30] between positions and mindsets that are evocative of the modern and of the postmodern but are ultimately suggestive of another sensibility: one that negotiates between a yearning for universal truths and an (a)political relativism, between hope and doubt, sincerity and irony, knowingness and naivety