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Jon “TheLitCritGuy” joins Breht (for the third time!), this time to talk about Fredric Jameson’s seminal work “Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”.
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Thank you for this discussion on Jameson’s “Postmodernism”!
The concept of a “Cultural dominant” that Jameson uses comes from Raymond Williams’s “Marxism and Literature,” itself coming from Antonio Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks,” written while imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime.
An interesting book I've found recently is one by someone called Jeffrey T. Nealon in 2012, "POST-POSTMODERNISM, or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism" which tries to do a similar thing to this book, but for the age from the 90s to when it was written, analysing similar but different changes post the post-modernity Jameson was describing with the changes in the sort of capitalism we're in now and how that affects culture. It's also an interesting read.
King's College London did a great panel building on Jameson's work called "Memes: The cultural logic of late capitalism?"
I just saw a picture of Charlie Kirk and I spit my drink out 😂
I spent a half a decade hardcore on opiates, right in the middle of the synthesis of the crisis, like I could've probably documented the phases and marked the day in which everyone had to switch over to heroine. Luckily, I made it out, after years on probation and in and out of prison, but this for profit legal system and the for profit healthcare system are certainly the perfect cultural representatives of a society in utter crisis attempting to numb itself to the dissonance that is inherent in this system while finding every single excuse, anything, no matter how many lives are ruined, to prevent from having to arrive at the point of having to blame the entire system. I've thought about going back and writing some of my experiences down and trying to analyze them from a dialectic or Marxist perspective.
thank you
Lovely left discussion
What is meant by dialectics/Marxist views vs. moralists? I don't understand this distinction.
Thank you!!!!!!! I was struggling with this essay and getting frustrated but this video was the breakthrough I needed to get me interested in the content.
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Well done, I always appreciate the wisdom of your podcasts.
I read this book near the end of my time at university. I really enjoyed reading it despite how difficult it was to understand at times. Thanks for this discussion, it was really illuminating and clarifying.
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