Robin van den Akker is Head of the Humanities Department at Erasmus University College Rotterdam. He has written extensively on changes in contemporary art, aesthetics, and culture that are symptomatic of the post-postmodern condition. Robin recently co-edited the collection Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after postmodernism (2017). His work has been translated in numerous languages, including Mandarin, Russian, German, and Spanish.