The concept of metamodernism relies on our understanding of modernism, postmodernism and the bigger cultural periods that originated them. While modernism is a product of modernity, postmodernism is not situated comprehensively within a well-defined period. Moreover, when dealing with the dichotomy of movement and era in the last century, we are presented with a taxonomic dilemma of conflating eras and their aesthetical manifestations. Contrary to the prevalent view of cultural shifts, here I propose a different attempt at periodising and understanding ontologically the concepts of modernism, postmodernism and metamodernism, and the related cultural periods in which they are situated. I argue that modernism and postmodernism should be considered as a continuum in a temporal sense, but not as equal orders in a categorical sense, and that postmodernism is not an apt descriptor for the period following modernity, nor for the aesthetic paradigm following modernism. To resolve this problem, on the one hand, I propose we adopt the term metamodernity, which better reflects the new era of cultural development. On the other hand, I discuss metamodernism, which is the current aesthetical, and to a degree axiological, manifestation of this new era.

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元现代主义或元现代性

元现代主义的概念依赖于我们对现代主义、后现代主义和起源它们的更大文化时期的理解。虽然现代主义是现代性的产物，但后现代主义并没有全面地处于一个明确定义的时期内。此外，在处理上世纪运动与时代的二分法时，我们面临着混淆时代及其审美表现的分类困境。与普遍的文化变迁观点相反，我在这里提出了一种不同的尝试，从本体论上划分和理解现代主义、后现代主义和元现代主义的概念，以及它们所处的相关文化时期。我认为现代主义和后现代主义应该被视为时间意义上的连续体，而不是分类意义上的平等秩序，并且后现代主义不适用于现代性之后的时期，也不适用于现代主义之后的审美范式。为了解决这个问题，一方面，我建议我们采用元现代性这个词，它更好地反映了文化发展的新时代。另一方面，我讨论了元现代主义，它是当前审美的，在一定程度上是价值论的新时代表现。