Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
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Read in March, 2006
If you're involved in the fields of literary, cultural, or media studies, you should read this book -- or at least the intorduction and first few essays;however, be prepared for a slow and painful experience. Jameson's language is dense and his ideas are complex (to put it lightly). Before attempting to read this book you should have a basic understanding of Marxism and semiotics. I'm not saying this to sound like a hot-shot smarty pants. If someone hadn't explained these things to me first, I w...more
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Read in January, 2008
I'll start by saying that Jameson knows his shit. As this qualifier suggests, there's something that needs qualifying. Throughout the book, self-awareness is a giant elephant in the room. By not taking a stance on various postmodernists (Haacke, Gehry, Claude Simon, et al), Jameson starts to function as an apologist rather than as an observer of it. Furthermore, his approach is intensely historicist, dismissing the myriad alternatives to his theory. So can anything valuable be ascertained f...more
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Read in February, 2002
Jameson's book is the gold standard against which I rank similar studies (Hutcheon's Poetics of Postmodernism, Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition). Jameson's thought is complex, and this is reflected in his sentences and paragraphs, which are frequently difficult to read. However, if you have the time, it is worth rereading sentences and determining how this clause is related to that parenthetical statement--almost invariably, once you have worked out Jameson's meaning, you admire the way he h...more
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Vocab:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratylis... - A philosophy taking after the Platonic dialogue of Cratylus, in which Cratylus argues that language is natural rather than conventional.
"It thus turns out that it is not only in love, cratylism, and botany that the supreme act of nomination wields a material impact and, like lightning striking from the superstructure back to the base, fuses its unlikely mater...more
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratylis... - A philosophy taking after the Platonic dialogue of Cratylus, in which Cratylus argues that language is natural rather than conventional.
"It thus turns out that it is not only in love, cratylism, and botany that the supreme act of nomination wields a material impact and, like lightning striking from the superstructure back to the base, fuses its unlikely mater...more
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I'm not going to lie Jameson verbally owns my ass.
Though I might not agree with his philosophy trying to argue with it is like trying to argue with The Architect in The Matrix.
You just ain't gonna win.
(Runs back to his vernacular based books as quick as he can.)
Though I might not agree with his philosophy trying to argue with it is like trying to argue with The Architect in The Matrix.
You just ain't gonna win.
(Runs back to his vernacular based books as quick as he can.)
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Read in September, 2007
Recently reread this book for class and it is just as amazing as ever. Though a little hard to follow at times, Jameson accurately and almost flawlessly describes the post-modern human condition.
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I'm gonna a rip Jameson a new asshole. Strikes me as one of them God paradoxa: Can one rip Jameson an asshole when, in fact, his is the biggest asshole one can find?
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Read in January, 2005
greg got me to read this. finished it in a laundromat in w.phila and stared into the swirling machine for an hour afterward just trying to cope.
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I know, sounds boring and I admit, some of it is quite dense. Necessary however, if one wants to understand the socio-economic influences, consequences, and basic theories behind the difficult-to-define postmodern movement.
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Read in July, 2007
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Essential Reading. Jameson's discourse is profound and necessary to navigate the postmodern cultural landscape - Read it!
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for those wanting to move on to writing about the "contemporary" as virno calls it, it's good to go back to the postmodern. and jameson's is clearly the most comprehensive, especially in his consideration of space.
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i'm not smart (or leisured) enough to read this book just yet. maybe in a month or so i'll come back to it.
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To be fair, I only read the title essay. I remember being a little irritated by Jameson's resigned Marxism.
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bought this too with my teacher discount....probably wouldn't ever go here with highschoolers though...
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