Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel.
We are currently living through a period of profound rupture, in which the way the world is perceived is undergoing significant change. Just as the interplay between capitalism and technology hastened the evolution of modernism and postmodernism, then so too are those same forces now taking us into uncharted waters. In an increasingly fragile world, in which the very existence of humankind is threatened, it is vital that we begin to understand this new landscape.
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Spencer Jordan has written a truly innovative and insightful book related to literary and cultural studies. His writing will provide a solid foundation for future studies about techno-social impact: studies that will only become more prominent and important as we venture further into the (post)digital future. * Leah Henrickson, Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures, University of Queensland, Australia *
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Offering an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel, this book also expores the limits and opportunities that metamodernism offers in terms of understanding and conceptualizing contemporaneity.
Introduction
Part 1 Endings and Beginnings
Chapter
1. (Post) Modernisms
Chapter
2. Posthuman Fantasias
Part 2 Metamodernism
Chapter
3. Post-Postmodernity
Chapter
4. Metamodern Utopias
Part 3 Postdigital Sublime
Chapter
5. (Post) Digital
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6. Metamodernism and the Postdigital
Conclusion
Bibliography
Spencer Jordan is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, UK.
