Articles by Fredric Jameson

• In Soviet Arcadia
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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?
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  in NLR I/228, March-April 1998, pp. 25-46
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Marx's Purloined Letter
  • Fredric Jameson

  in NLR I/209, January-February 1995, pp. 75-109
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

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• Marxism and Postmodernism
  • Fredric Jameson

  in NLR I/176, July-August 1989, pp. 31-45
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Introduction to Borge
  • Fredric Jameson

  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
  • Fredric Jameson

  in NLR I/146, July-August 1984, pp. 53-92
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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