He has authored and edited numerous books and articles on post-postmodern culture as well as on contemporary aesthetics, in particular film and TV. His latest book, Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism, co-edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons, is due to be be published with Rowman and Littlefield in 2017. Vermeulen is currently working on a book project on the “as-if” in contemporary art.