Mimesis, Expression, Construction Quotes

“Well, little by little that’s gonna mean that you can’t imagine a future that’s different from this one, and finally that there is no real place for negativity, for imagination, fantasy, and so forth. Therefore, one of the great… [Cough in the audience] laments of the Frankfurt School — as the postwar went on into the 1960s, and so forth — is that this society of late capitalism is removing all the possible spaces from which any negation of it could be achieved.”
― Fredric Jameson, Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory

“Negation is the ability to take a distance from what-is, which increasingly becomes more difficult, given that the whole logic of our society is based on an ideology which insists that only what-is exists, or is possible, and that there is no place for anything outside of what already exists.”
― Fredric Jameson, Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory