Articles by Fredric Jameson
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On Re-reading Life and Fate
in NLR 95, September-October 2015, pp. 81-93
Subjects: Literature , Soviet Union and Russia , War and Peace
Against conventional comparisons with War and Peace, Fredric Jameson offers a path-breaking formal reading of Vassily Grossman’s great fiction of the Battle of Stalingrad. The war against Hitler as crucible for a new collectivity, in which freedom finds itself, or as grounds of social—and thus narrative—totality.
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The Aesthetics of Singularity
in NLR 92, March-April 2015, pp. 101-132
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Can postmodernity still define the present age, or is the concept now obsolescent? In a major retrospect and re-evaluation, Fredric Jameson reflects on the cultural logic of globalization and its temporalities. Art, cuisine and financial derivatives as one-off ideas and events; global politics and counter-possibilities as land-grabs, or occupied space.
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Sartre's Actuality
in NLR 88, July-August 2014, pp. 113-119
Subjects: Philosophy
Reflections on the occasion of the Rome Lecture and on its themes. Dialectic of the inside and the outside, the surprising role of non-knowledge in subjectivity—and new technologies and labour processes as experiential grounds for transformation in class consciousness.
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In Soviet Arcadia
in NLR 75, May-June 2012, pp. 119-127
Subjects: Literature , Soviet Union and Russia
Fredric Jameson on Francis Spufford, Red Plenty. A documentary-cum-fable reconstructs the lost future of the Khrushchev era.
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Dresden’s Clocks
in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 141-152
Subjects: Germany , Literature
Fredric Jameson on Uwe Tellkamp, Der Turm. Reunified Germany’s best-seller from the former DDR, and the way time was lived in it.
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Regieoper, or Eurotrash?
in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 111-129
Subjects: Aesthetics , Music
Opera has been globalized, and big-bang productions of Wagner’s music-dramas now outnumber those of all other works. How to frame an aesthetics for this cultural-historical phenomenon—allegorical ideogram strings, or Gesamtkunstwerk as vaudeville?
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Marx and Montage
in NLR 58, July-August 2009, pp. 109-117
Subjects: Aesthetics , Cinema , Germany , Soviet Union and Russia
The author of Archaeologies of the Future unearths fragments from ‘ideological antiquity’ in Alexander Kluge’s recent film on Capital. Encounters with Eisenstein’s unrealized equivalent, seeking a cinematic transposition of the commodity fetish.
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Sandblasting Marx
in NLR 55, January-February 2009, pp. 134-142
Subjects: Philosophy
Fredric Jameson on Christoph Henning, Philosophie nach Marx. Austerities of a German rejection of social philosophy, in the name of the Moor.
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The Politics of Utopia
in NLR 25, January-February 2004, pp. 35-54
Subjects: Literature , Social Theory
Between the dizzying technologies of the First World, and social disintegrations of the Third, does the concept of utopia still possess a meaning? Fredric Jameson on the resistant negations of fantasy-based systemic critique.
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Fear and Loathing in Globalization
in NLR 23, September-October 2003, pp. 105-114
Subjects: Literature
Reflections on William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition: a contemporary dialectic of style, as the Verne of cyberspace turns to the branded present and its nauseas.
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Future City
in NLR 21, May-June 2003, pp. 65-79
Subjects: Aesthetics , Architecture
After the dilapidation of urban modernism, what kinds of city and what forms of architecture await us? The author of The Seeds of Time considers their flowers in the dizzying work of Rem Koolhaas, the mega-developments of the Pearl River Delta and the conceptualization of ‘Junkspace’. Breaking back into history with a battering-ram of the postmodern?
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Globalization and Political Strategy
in NLR 4, July-August 2000, pp. 49-68
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , World Economy and Globalization
The all-purpose G-word, as slogan and euphemism, needs taking apart. Fredric Jameson dismantles its different components—technological, political, cultural, economic and social—and reassembles them into a coherent target for collective resistance.
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The Brick and the Balloon: Architecture, Idealism and Land Speculation
in NLR I/228, March-April 1998, pp. 25-46
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Marx's Purloined Letter
in NLR I/209, January-February 1995, pp. 75-109
Subjects: Philosophy
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Marxism and Postmodernism
in NLR I/176, July-August 1989, pp. 31-45
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Introduction to Borge
in NLR I/164, July-August 1987, pp. 51-52
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Nicaragua
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Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
in NLR I/146, July-August 1984, pp. 53-92
Subjects: Aesthetics
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