Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism

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Notes

¹ We do not have the space here to elaborate in detail on our notion of metamodernism and its various tendencies. We refer the reader to our previous publications for further discussion. See, for instance, Vermeulen & van den Akker (2010) or Vermeulen & van den Akker (2014).

² See, in order of appearance, Konstantinou (2009); Vermeulen &. van den Akker (2010); Allen and McQuade (2011); MacDowell (2012); Sterling (2012); Vermeulen & Rustad (2013); Poecke (2014).

³ See this excavation process in relation to deconstructive conceptual art and dystopian cyberpunk in Jameson’s Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism (1991: 154–179) and Archaeologies of the future. The desire called Utopia and other science fictions (2005: 383–394).

⁴ For a particularly original take on this situation see Williams & Srnicek (2013).