Metamodern Times: Going Beyond Nihilism

In 2010, researchers Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker published the essay <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Notes on metamodernism</a>, later translated to <a href="https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/ae/article/view/14524" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Portuguese</a> and published in 2017 on the magazine Arte & Ensaios published by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. At that time, the researchers aimed to put in words this feeling that we were experiencing as a society in the turn of a new century. What they diagnosed and what seems to make sense, in a general sense, is that we are no longer living in times that could be classified as post-modern, but rather in a period with other characteristics that still hold some important elements of post-modernity as well as modernity. In chronological terms, modernity starts with the First Industrial Revolution and it’s often related to the development of capitalism. This period can be traced back between 1760 and 1840. Post-modernity, by its turn, becomes the norm after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and, with the arrival of the new century, or more specifically, with the beginning of the 2010 decade, we are now confronted by a new mindset or a new generalized feeling about our world and our contemporaneity. <a href="https://lidiazuin.medium.com/metamodern-times-going-beyond-nihilism-5d7825260cc2">Visit Now</a>