AFTER POSTMODERNISM

WHAT IS METAMODERNISM?

A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...

After Postmodernism: 10. My Work and the 'Specter of Identity'

GOD AND THE ‘SPECTER OF IDENTITY’ Of crucial importance in the last scene of the previous post, I think, is Joel’s decision to see Spirit...

After Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated Belief

GOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...

After Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of Dimensionality

GOD, the first volume in the Icon, is an epic poem I wrote between 2011 and 2015, and in its themes and formal strategies exemplifies...

After Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist Period

TOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...

After Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism

Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.

After Postmodernism: 5. Performatism

EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...

After Postmodernism: 4. Remodernism

What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai

After Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of Identity

Using Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath

After Postmodernism: 2. The End of an Era

Postmodernism dominated cultural and intellectual production during the 70s and 80s. In the 1990s, its energy began to dissipate; the...

After Postmodernism: 1. What (Really) Was Postmodernism?

We find ourselves in strange times. World historical forces are currently at work which (it seems safe to say) no one saw coming, and...

Political Metamodernism

A look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.