I was hoping to conduct a longer interview with van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen, but we lost touch after this first question.

Bennetts

What is metamodernism?

Van den Akker

Metamodernism is a structure of feeling that emerged in the 2000s – seen as a period rather than a decade; ranging from the late 1990s to 2011 – and has by now become a cultural dominant in western societies.