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  1. Sep 2021
    1. Besides being a nearly ideal synthesis of the Two Cultures, science fiction also happens to have been one of the principal refuges, in our time, for those of Luddite persuasion.

      Frederic Jameson catches up with his Science Fiction and Other Utopias

  2. Mar 2020
  3. Feb 2020
    1. be terribly self-conscious.

      A characteristic of Post-Modernism . . .

    2. The apotheosis of the pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between high and low culture.

      Which is post-modernism.

      They no longer "quote" such "texts" as a Joyce might have done, or a Mahler; they incorporate them, to the point where the line between high-art and commercial forms seems increasingly difficult to draw. Frederic Jameson. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"

    1. The apotheosis of the pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between high and low culture.

      Which is post-modernism.

      They no longer "quote" such "texts" as a Joyce might have done, or a Mahler; they incorporate them, to the point where the line between high-art and commercial forms seems increasingly difficult to draw. https://art.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Jameson_Postmodernism_and_Consumer_Society.pdf

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  4. Apr 2017
    1. Fredric Jameson describes his experience and frustration with the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles

      I read through the next few paragraphs and struggled to understand the point they were making with these examples. I wanted more context, which I found helped a great deal in understanding the point being made here, so I thought you folks might appreciate that, as well. Here is the hotel:

      And here is an excerpt from the aforementioned text in which Jameson discusses the hotel. Important points are helpfully in red: https://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/hum3930b/jameson1.htm

  5. Jul 2016
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    1. howtodevelopanationalpoliticalmovementonthebasisofacitystra-tegyandpolitics.

      Byron Hawk discusses this.

    2. Ihavetriedtosuggestthatthethreehistoricalstagesofcapitalhave eachgeneratedatypeofspaceuniquetoit,eventhoughthesethreestagesofcapitalistspaceareob-viouslyfarmore profoundlyinterrelatedthanarethespacesofothermodesofproduction.

      3 stages of capital, each with its own space.