'Parafiction, autofiction, perfiction' | Co-authored with Robin van den Akker. Para/Fictions. Edited by Natasha Hoare. Witte de With Publishers, 2018, pp. 19-29
‘The Altergorithm’ | The Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova. Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 29-32.
REPRINTS:
Frieze online (April, 2016)
‘Ecopathy’ | The Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova. Bloomsbury, 2018., pp. 125-129
‘Ekopatia: výlet na pláž’ | Slovakian Transl. Magdaléna Kobzová. 3/4 2020
‘Metamodernism' | The Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova. Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 256-259.
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism
Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Rowman & Littlefield Int. 2017
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social, technological and economic developments, the volume provides both a map and an itinerary of today’s metamodern cultural landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric Jameson’s canonical arguments about the waning of historicity, affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context. In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the metamodern cultural moment.
“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.”
“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.”
TRANSLATIONS:
Metamodernismo: Historicidad, afecto y profundidad después del posmodernismo | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by Joaqim Feijoo Perez. Mutatis Mutandis, 2023
Metamodernizm: Postmodernizm Sonrası Tarihsellik, Duyuşsallık ve Derinlik | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by Aykut Dalak. Tun Kitap, 2020.
Метамодернизм: Историчность, аффект и глубина после постмодернизма | Edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons. Translated by V.M. Lipka. Ripol, 2019; 2nd Edition 2020; 3rd Edition 2021.
‘Periodizing the 2000s, or the emergence of metamodernism’ | Co-authored with Robin van den Akker. Metamodernism: Historicity, affect, depth. Edited by Alison Gibbons, R. van den Akker and T. Vermeulen. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, pp. 1-22.
‘Metamodern depth, or depthiness’ | Metamodernism: Historicity, affect, depth. Edited by Alison Gibbons, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, pp. 147-150
'We need to talk about Dolphins' | The Standard Book of Noun-Verb Exhibition Grammar. Edited by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk. Onamatopee, 2017, pp.
‘Groucho Marxism’ | Solution 275: Communism. Edited by Joshua Simon and Ingo Niermann. Sternberg Press, 2017, pp.
‘Contraction and expansion’ | Authenticity? Observations and artistic strategies in the post-digital age. Edited by Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendriks. Valiz, 2017, pp. 19-27.
‘Postmodernism’ | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Eric Rothenbuhler. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp.
‘Poststructuralism’ | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Eric Rothenbuhler. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp.
‘Todd Haynes: with the love of the lens’ | Directory of World Cinema: American Independent Vol. 3. Edited by John Berra. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 138-141
‘Todd Solondz: in search of lost time’ | Directory of World Cinema: American Independent Vol. 3. Edited by John Berra. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 250-254
‘The altergorithm’ | Frieze online (April, 2016)
Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne
Co-authored with Robin van Den Akker. Translated by Elias Wagner. TEXTEM Verlag 2015
Während sich viele Kommentatoren darüber einig sind, dass wir die Koordinaten der Postmoderne verlassen haben, herrscht wenig Einigkeit darüber, mit welchem Modell sich die Gegenwart erfassen und verändern lässt.
Mit ihren Überlegungen zur Metamoderne spüren Robin van den Akker und Timotheus Vermeulen einer Haltung nach, die die ironische Distanz gegenüber Idealismus, Romantik und Realpolitik überwindet, ohne die Errungenschaften postmoderner Skepsis leichtfertig preiszugeben.
TRANSLATIONS:
Poznámky k metamodernizmu |Co-authored with Robin van Den Akker. Translated by Terezia Klasova. Edice Psi Verlag 2017
‘The New Depthiness’ | E-Flux Journal 61 (2015)
TRANSLATIONS:
新“感深性” |《黑齿》杂志/Heichi Magazine (Dec. 2020). Chinese transl. Xiaoxuan Song.
‘Thoughts on the space of contemporary sculpture, or: stringing along’ | Materiality in Times of Immateriality. Edited by Jorg Heiser and Eva Grubinger. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015, pp. 29-34.
‘The YBAs are Dead! Long Live the YBAs’ | Facing Forward: Art & Theory from a Future Perspective. Edited by Hendrik Folkerts, Christoph Lindner and Margriet Schavemaker. Amsterdam University Press, 2015, pp. 156-160.
Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television
Edinburgh University Press 2014
Suburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: white picket fence, neatly mowed lawns, winding roads nicely lined with trees, pastel-tinted bungalows, bored housewives, conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or do we? This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? By exploring in detail the hometowns of Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber, Scenes from the SuburbsC examines what it means to be suburban today. An essential read for academics concerned with the ways in which our understandings of space and place change, this book is particularly relevant for students and researchers in Suburban Studies, Film and Television Studies and Urban Geography.