An urgency for metamodernism in an affectual structure of reason

This paper will examine metamodernism in the context of an urgency of debate in defining the differences between pre-pandemic and post-pandemic structures in contemporary art by the critical term ‘universal reckoning’. Discussion will argue three key points for metamodernism, which are: metamodernism was defined in a pre-pandemic context as an ontological assessment of affect from a structure of feeling; post-pandemic assessment is functioned through an epistemological approach from a structure of reason; and that an urgency for metamodernism to move into the later informs relevance for aesthetics, the subject, and conceptualism in contemporary art.<p></p>