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Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Our series honoring Fredric Jameson's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.

Jameson at 9023 September 2024

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy.

To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre:

Unintimidated languages – Daniel Hartley

On prophetic form and the whole tangled, dripping mass of the dialectic – Christopher Breu

Intense Curiosity – Matthew Beaumont

On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression – Ian Buchanan

History is what hurts – Maria Elisa Cevasco

Deep Listening – Phillip E. Wegner

Synchronic History – Kristin Ross

Negative Dialectics – C.D. Blanton

Historicizing the Present – Robert T. Tally

Inevitable Negations – Clint Burnham

Orienting towards the social totality – Alberto Toscano

Utopia Hurts – Christian P. Haines

On Brecht and Method – Olivier Neveux

Losing Historicity – Kirk Boyle

The becoming cultural of the economic, and vice versa – Xudong Zhang

Imagining Utopia – Gerry Canavan

Rereading “On Rereading Doktor Faustus” – Nicholas Brown

Jameson's complex chord – Sianne Ngai

The Rebus in Fredric Jameson's The Hegel Variations – Andrew Cole

Marxist interpretation as a vocation – Anna Kornbluh

The totalising form of a bourgeois life – Steve Edwards

Utopian impulses and the pursuit of totality – Ian Balfour

More class, less discontinuity – Brian Willems

Uncompromising dialectics – Oded Nir

Symptoms of the present – Carolyn Lesjak

Magisterial Figurations – Brittany Murray

  

See all works by Fredric Jameson here

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The Years of Theory
Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lect...
Paperback
Inventions of a Present
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best...
Postmodernism
In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a de...
Paperback
Representing 'Capital'
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musica...
Late Marxism
In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernis...
The Antinomies of Realism
The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...
The Modernist Papers
The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centurie...
An American Utopia

An American Utopia

Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal co...
The Ancients and the Postmoderns
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music...
Paperback
Allegory and Ideology
Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contra...

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