Metamodernism
Metamodern Concept
Metamodernism describes the processes and phenomena in culture and society from the beginning of the new millennium to the present. This concept was introduced in 2010 by Dutch philosophers Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Acker in their essay Notes on Metamodernism. The prefix "meta‑" establishes a specific understanding of the term and the current perception of the world. This Greek prefix has three meanings: alongside, between, and after. Philosophers argue that metamodernism must be viewed simultaneously and three‑dimensionally: epistemologically as "alongside" postmodernism and modernism, ontologically "between" postmodernism and modernism, and historically "after" them.
Three important aspects
1. Metamodernism is not a harbinger of the decline of postmodernism, much less a negation of it. Traditional, modernist and postmodern values will coexist for a long time in the global society along with metamodern ones due to the uneven development of society and the gradual transition from one set of values to another.
2. Simultaneously relying on the basis of modernism and postmodernism and constantly rethinking them, metamodernism forms tense dialectical contradictions between them, thereby creating a conflict that contributes to the further development and combination of opposite concepts in a new quality.
3. Although historically metamodernism appears after postmodernism, it does not occupy a dominant position in all anthropological spheres. However, unlike postmodernism, which divides the world into many parts form a common whole, metamodernism perceives the world and culture as one common stream of meanings, which are parts of a common truth, where each unit is important and selfsufficient. There is no place for snobbery,
elitism. There is no high and low culture in it.
However metamodernism is not a prescriptive philosophical concept but rather has a descriptive character of the current historical moment, in which dialectics has reemerged, constantly questioning and rethinking stable and consolidated positions and metanarratives until recently.
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