Froderick Jimmerson, or Fredric Jameson, Part II
(b. 1934 ¦ Cleveland, OH)
Currently the William A Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University.
His list of publications is downright mind-boggling, officially listing nearly 150 journal articles.
Our reading, published in 1984, would form the basis for Jameson’s 1991 book of the same title.
Here, you’ll find a YouTube video of a keynote lecture that “Fred” gave at Duke in 2008(?). [Would have embedded it, but Duke disabled the option.]
“Postmodernism…”
Where to even begin? The article is encyclopedic in its scope, both in terms of art objects discussed and in terms of the different valences that postmodernism had taken by 1984. To risk VASTLY oversimplifying this, the basic principle Jameson explores is the one most often attributed to postmodernism: namely, that a postmodern culture is one unmoored to any referent beyond itself, or one of its own creation. The results, Jameson suggests, stem from 4 “constitutive features of the postmodern” (p. 487): Read more