In 2010 the cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker introduced the term metamodernism as an intervention in the post-postmodernism debate .
In 2010 Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin Van Den Akker wrote an article called ` Notes on Metamodernism ' that characterised life today as an oscillation between the realism of Postmodernism and the idealism of Modernism .