Metamodernism or new sincerity
St Petersburg University and its Representative Office in Barcelona invite you to an online lecture ‘Metamodernism or new sincerity’. During the lecture, we will talk about one of the most influential and controversial paradigms in contemporary art. The lecture will be delivered by Nina Shcherbak, Candidate of Philology.
In 2010, the Dutch philosopher-theorist Robin van den Acker and media theorist Timotheus Vermeulen coined the term ‘metamodernism’. They used it to refer to the changes in culture that have taken place from the late 1990s to the present day. Metamodernism is one of the current attempts to define the actual cultural reality.
Every new cultural current emerges from the previous one, and this is natural. Metamodernism emerged as a reaction to postmodernism, just as postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. The Greek prefix ‘meta’ means ‘to follow something’, ‘after something’, ‘a gap in space or time’, ‘a transition from one place or state to another’’. This is why metamodernism has been compared to the swing of a pendulum, but a pendulum pointing towards the future rather than the past.
During our lecture, we will talk in detail about the important characteristics of the metamodernism, such as new sincerity and neo-romanticism. We will also find examples of this new movement in art, painting, music, and the film industry.
Speaker
Nina Shcherbak, Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology and Cultural Linguistics at St Petersburg University, a writer and screenwriter. She is also a scriptwriter for science television shows, author of fifteen monographs, and books on linguistics, literature, language philosophy, and English literature.
The lecture will be held as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the oldest university in Russia.
The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.