Posts tagged: jameson-at-90

The becoming cultural of the economic, and vice versa

Revisiting Fredric Jameson's The Cultural Turn, Xudong Zhang reminds us that, for Jameson, the cultural turn was always also economic. Zhang describes postmodernism's mutually constitutive process of globalizing and totalizing both the cultural and the economic for our Jameson at 90 series.
Losing Historicity

Kirk Boyle investigates Fredric Jameson's attempt to confront the challenges posed by the singularity of modernity in the latest instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.
On Brecht and Method

Olivier Neveux revisits Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method for our Jameson at 90 series.
Utopia Hurts

Christian P. Haines reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Seeds of Time and the painfulness of utopia for our Jameson at 90 series.
Orienting towards the social totality

Alberto Toscano reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Geopolitical Aesthetic as part of our Jameson at 90 series.
Inevitable Negations

For the 10th instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Clint Burnham revisits Fredric Jameson's Signatures of the Visible.
Historicizing the Present

Robert T. Tally Jr revisits Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism for the eighth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.
Negative dialectics

C. D. Blanton reflects on Fredric Jameson's Late Marxism in part 7 of our Jameson at 90 series.
Synchronic history

Kristin Ross writes about her relationship with Fredric Jameson and how his work has shaped her own thinking for part 7 of our Jameson at 90 series.
Deep Listening

For the sixth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Phillip E. Wegner discusses Fredric Jameson's The Ideologies of Theory.
On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression: Jameson at 90

Fredric Jameson was born 90 years ago today. To mark the occasion, Ian Buchanan explores Jameson's inimitable "immunity to boredom" through his 1979 book, Fables of Aggression.
Intense Curiosity: Jameson's The Prison-House of Language

Fredric Jameson's Prison House of Language (1972) is inspiring, Matthew Beaumont writes, because of the author's 'intense curiosity' vis-a-vis the Russian Structuralists. For Jameson's 90th birthday, Beaumont revisits the text, which he describes as anomalous in the theorist's oeuvre.