A very quick intro to metamodernism
In this article, I commemorate the kinship between us, mostly political-philosophical metamodernists, and you, the cultural-critical movement more detailed to aesthetics, style, and film. I know I can talk not just for myself when stating that we political lobbyists like you men and your job, both the artists/designers described as metamodern and the academics that explained the fad (rats in the cellar, you recognize who you are ☺). The great part is, in an intellectual and social context, you don’t even need to like us back. We can still use your ideas, your taste and your perceptiveness to change culture for the better.
DUTCH RENAISSANCE
Apparently, these words by cultural philosophers Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van der Akker, appearing in a 2010 paper in Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, hit a chord:
“Ontologically, metamodernism oscillates between the contemporary and the postmodern. It oscillates in between a contemporary enthusiasm and a postmodern irony, in between hope and moody, in between naïveté and knowingness, compassion and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, pureness and uncertainty.”
I believe this quote constitutes the core of what may be called a little Dutch Renaissance in its own right. These …