Post-Postmodernism

the length of a held breath

SOURCE REFERENCE: Post-Postmodernism

Title: Post-Postmodernism (Wikipedia) Date: 2025 URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism

SUMMARY

Survey of movements emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Documents the landscape of post-postmodern thought, including metamodernism, immersionism, trans-postmodernism, and pseudo/digimodernism.

KEY MOVEMENTS:

  1. IMMERSIONISM (Brooklyn, 1988)

    • Key Figure: Ebon Fisher
    • Core Move: “Mutual world construction” — environmental immersion vs. distancing
    • Manifesto: “You never believed in modernism and you aren’t fooled by its vain reflection, postmodernism… You found that to immerse yourself was the thing.”

  2. TRANS-POSTMODERNISM (1999)

    • Key Figure: Mikhail Epstein
    • Core Move: Rebirth of modern concepts with “trans-” prefix

  3. PSEUDO/DIGIMODERNISM (2006)

    • Key Figure: Alan Kirby
    • Core Move: Critique of shallow digital participation as “silent autism”

  4. METAMODERNISM (2010)

    • Key Figures: Vermeulen & Van den Akker
    • Core Move: Oscillation between sincerity and irony

COMMON THREAD: All movements recover sincerity, trust, and engagement while retaining postmodern critique.

RELEVANCE: Provides historical context for understanding metamodernism as one response among several to postmodernism’s limitations. Shows the broader landscape of oscillatory and sincere thinking that has emerged post-2000.

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