Metamodernism

Between hope and doubt, between feeling and thinking

 

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Sometimes you read something that not only puts into words what you already intuitively felt, but also opens a new window to the world. For me, that was the essay Notes on Metamodernism by Vermeulen and Van den Akker. This article was the catalyst for a journey that continues to this day. A journey in search of connection — between the modern longing for meaning and the postmodern skepticism that relativizes every truth. Between engagement and irony, hope and melancholy, naivety and awareness.

 

For me, metamodernism is not just a theoretical term, but a living way of looking at the times we live in. It is the spiritual fabric that connects my philosophical work, my art, and my life. Through personal experiences, encounters, and inner crises, the ideas I first explored at art school have slowly but surely found their place.

 

On this page, you’ll find my 2018 graduation thesis from the Royal Academy of Art —  a series of essays in which I explore the contours of metamodernism. Not as a fixed system, but as a movement between opposites — like a pendulum that never comes to rest.

 

I invite you to travel through this world of thought, which finds its ground somewhere between hope and doubt, between feeling and thought.

 

 

How this connects to my wider work

In my philosophical work, love, empathy and connectedness are recurring themes. Metamodernism provides the framework in which these themes find their place — not as fixed certainties, but as guiding forces in a time full of contradictions.

 

Where postmodernism brought alienation and relativism, metamodernism seeks a new wholeness — an open, vulnerable attempt to reshape meaning and humanity, beyond cynicism and naïve ideals.

 

In this way, metamodernism forms the quiet undercurrent that connects my essays, artworks, and reflections.