Metamodernism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metamodernism is a noun meaning A movement combining elements of modernism and postmodernism.
Meaning
A movement combining elements of modernism and postmodernism.
Example Sentences
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) […]
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.
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, […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include remodernism, anamodernism, antimodernism, hypermodernism, postmodernity, post-postmodernism.
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