UniversidaddeCádiz

research at the British Library focused on the changes in the world of culture after 9/11 which raise doubts about the survival of the concept of postmodernism. Terms and theories like hypermodern (Gilles Lipovetsky), digimodernism (Alan Kirby), automodernism (Robert Samuels), altermodernism (Nicholas Bourriaud) or metamodernism (Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker) are appearing to explain current cultural events and they show that change is occurring. In both popular and high culture works are being produced that seem to want to recover the unfinished project of modernity predicted by Jürgen Habermas. This turn is taking place in the light of the visions and ideals that come from the philosophy of the nineteenth century and in particular the romantic period. The great influence that American culture has on the rest of the world is making the paradigm shift take shape in the light of the tenets of the American transcendentalist movement.