If you’re in the market for a slick, shiny new aesthetic of the post-post or the meta-, you won’t find it here – but you won’t find it anywhere else, either, because it doesn’t exist. If, however, you genuinely want to understand the “sticky mess” (in Jörg Heiser’s phrase) that the new cultural practices are in the very process of emerging from, then you owe it to yourself to give this volume your fullest attention.

Brian McHale, Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor at The Ohio State University, Author of "Postmodernist Fiction" (1987) and "The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism" (2015)

Metamodernism is the best collection of essays on our time’s most notable cultural development: the turning of postmodernism into something else. The project’s heart is van den Akker and Vermeulen’s 2008 milestone essay “Notes on Metamodernism,” which beats across a volume bringing together Alison Gibbons, Lee Konstantinou, Josh Toth, James MacDowell, Raoul Eshelman, and other distinguished critics of the contemporary.

Christian Moraru, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina

In 2002, Linda Hutcheon famously announced the end of postmodernism. What has been happening in the areas of arts, culture, aesthetics, and politics ever since? Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism provides an answer to this question. The book is truly impressive in terms of both its theoretical scope and the discussion of representative examples of metamodernism.

Jan Alber, President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative

I hope this book becomes required reading for scholars and think tanks, or any students studying postmodernism and beyond, so we could at least adopt a common ‘language’ (as they describe it) to reduce the excessive redundancy and conict in academia and contemporary social thought. This is what the ‘principle of abstraction’ from computer science does, and is much needed in our cultural programming.

The Abs-Tract Organization