Robin van den Akker is Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University College Rotterdam.
Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University.
Timotheus Vermeulen is Associate Professor in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo.

Acknowledgements
1. Periodising the 2000s, or, the emergence of metamodernism, Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen

Section I: Historicity
2. Metamodern Historicity, Robin van den Akker
3. The metamodern, the quirky, and the challenge of categorization, James MacDowell
4. Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction, Josh Toth
5. Super-hybridity: Non-simultaneity, political power, and multipolar conflict, Jorg Heiser
6. The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts, Sjoerd van Tuinen

Section II: Affect
7. Metamodern Affect, Alison Gibbons
8. Four Faces of Post-Irony, Lee Konstantinou
9. Radical Defenselessness: A new sense of self in the work of David Foster Wallace, Nicoline Timmer
10. Contemporary Autofiction and Affect, Alison Gibbons
11. The Joke that Wasn't funny anymore: Empathy in Contemporary Sitcoms, Gry Rustad and Kai Schwind

Section III: Depth
12. Metamodern Depth or 'Depthiness', Timotheus Vermeulen
13. Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility, Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk
14. Between truth, sincerity and satire: Post-truth politics and the rhetoric of authenticity, Sam Browse
15. Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing beauty and transcendence after postmodernism, Raoul Eshelman

Epilogue
16. Thoughts on writing about art after postmodernism, James Elkins
References
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