Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Culture: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- 2. Ideology: Theories of The Postmodern
- 3. Video: Surrealism Without The Unconscious
- 4. Architecture: Spatial Equivalents in the World System
- 5. Sentences: Reading and the Division of Labor
- 6. Space: Utopianism After the End of Utopia
- 7. Theory: Immanence and Nominalism In Postmodern Theoretical Discourse
- 8. Economics: Postmodernism and the Market
- 9. Film: Nostalgia for the Present
- 10. Conclusion: Secondary Elaborations
- Notes
- Index