We Are All Metamoderns: An Introduction to Metamodernism
| Thesis title in Czech: | Všichni jsme metamoderní: Úvod do metamodernismu |
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| Thesis title in English: | We Are All Metamoderns: An Introduction to Metamodernism |
| Key words: | Metamodernismus|Teorie sítí aktérů|Postmodernismus|Nordická škola|Holandská škola|Ironie |
| English key words: | Metamodernism|Actor-network theory|Post-modernism|Nordic school|Dutch school|Irony |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2022/2023 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Filip Vostal, D.Phil. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 08.03.2023 |
| Date of assignment: | 08.03.2023 |
| Administrator's approval: | approved |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 08.03.2023 |
| Date and time of defence: | 08.02.2024 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 10.01.2024 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 08.02.2024 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, D.Phil. |
| Guidelines |
| This work will provide a genealogy of the metamodern condition. The postmodern sentiment is by no means gone, but it has transformed so much at this point that the vague postmodern label has become obsolete. Indeed, the cultural sphere is now dealing with a whole set of urgent social, political and economic realities, spurred on by climatic, financial and geopolitical crises, that postmodernism could never seriously handle. In the course of this paper, I will examine the modernist and post-modernist streams of thought that have resulted in the emergence of metamodernism, which somehow counter-intuitively combines modernist sincerity with post-postmodernist irony. Moreover, I will assess this stream of thought through the lens of Actor-network theory, as outlined by Bruno Latour. In the end, I hope to demonstrate that metamodernism offers something that postmodernism, disappointed from the failure of modernist projects, never could: hope. |
| References |
| Sekundární literatura: Andersen, L. R. (2019). Metamodernity: Meaning and hope in a complex world. Copenhagen: Nordic Bildung. Eve, M. (2012). Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the problems of “metamodernism”: post-millennial post-postmodernism? C21 Literature. 1(1), 7-25. Freinacht, H. (2017). The Listening Society. Frederikssund, Metamoderna Lashomb, D. (2021). Warhol/Chris Chan: The Lifespan of American Pop Culture, or The Suppression of Reality. Latour, B. (1991). We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Luke, T.W. (1997). At the End of Nature: Cyborgs, ‚Humachines‘, and Environments in Postmodernity. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 29(8), 1367-1380. Storm, J. A. J. (2021). Metamodernism: The Future of Theory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. van den Akker, R., Gibbons, A., & Vermeulen, T. (2017). Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism. London: Rowman & Littlefield |