Search Results for late capitalism

...Jonathan Beller The programmatic erasure of the concept of capitalism by the state (here paradigmatically represented by the state of Texas) is allied with the waning of Fredric Jameson’s dialectical concept of postmodernism. “Postmodernism” as the critique of the cultural logic of late capitalism...

...Nico Baumbach; Damon R. Young; Genevieve Yue This interview was conducted with Fredric Jameson on 13 March 2014 in New York City and has been lightly edited for clarity. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of “Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism...

..., and Nazi against colonial. But more important, the essay attempts to address a broader problem of concentrated modernity, in which the two camps become symptoms, products, and models of the world in the era of late capitalism. In the end, the essay, turning on itself, asks a principal (and troubling...

... . Holmström Bengt Tirole Jean . Inside and Outside Liquidity . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2011 . Jameson Fredric . “ Culture and Finance Capital .” Critical Inquiry 24 , no. 1 ( 1997 ): 246 – 65 . Jameson Fredric . Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism...

...Ed Cohen How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian...

... to both colonial legacies and transnational capital. Joining conversations about the university's rabid corporatization, the essay uses the arts, and particularly the theater department, as a case study of how the bifurcation of professional training and scholarship, form and content, theory and practice...

... science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through durative and recursive structures. Providing the extractive and appropriative logics underlying racial capitalism, dispossession is both...

...Greg L. Childs This article explores the problem of torture and secrecy in the archives of conspiracies, seditions, and black resistance movements in the colonial Americas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the example of the Tailors' Conspiracy, a seditious movement...

... Fredric . 1981 . The Political Unconscious . London : Verso . Jameson Fredric . 1984 . “ Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism .” New Left Review 146 : 53 – 92 . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC...

... are not simply a typical form of labor on the Internet; they also embody a complex relation to labor that is widespread in late capital- ist societies. In this essay I understand this relationship as a provision of “free labor,” a trait of the cultural economy...

..., where, as Adorno warned about late capitalism, all negativity has been tendentially reduced and extirpated—and this not only in his sense of the distances still maintained by critique and ‘critical theory,’ but even in the temporal sense of the gaps left by the past and the mirages fitfully generated...

..., the importance of forming a coalition of anticapitalist and anti-homophobic struggles, or the rise of a gay and lesbian consumer culture in late capitalism. In addition to those discussed in greater detail in the article, examples include Raffo, Queerly Classed ; Gibson-Graham, “Queer(y)ing Capitalism...

... . Baltz Lewis . 1975 . “ Review of The New West. ” Art in America 63 , no. 2 : 41 – 43 . Baltz Lewis . 2012 . Texts . Göttingen : Steidl . Boal Iain . 2007 . “ Globe Talk: The Cartographic Logic of Late Capitalism .” History Workshop Journal 64 : 341 – 46...

... commute our language from one dimension to another, when we shift the rhetorical basis from time to space. Take the term late capitalism . If you object to the optimistic periodization it assumes, think about how much more infelicitous a term like distant capitalism sounds. “Beyond Globalism...

... as a social rather than psychological or political practice. I argue the aesthetic category of camp cites a particular moment in economic production, the moment of social distribution, which under late capitalism means an increasing fragmentation of social groups. I then train this understanding of camp...

...: The Art Form of Late Capitalism.” This was Stanley's contribution to what is now a collector's item; it was awe-inspiring and anticipated his entry into cultural studies. In that essay, I found a kindred spirit and potential interlocutor. Beyond Stanley Cavell's claims of film as an ontology, Stanley...

... as racial outsiders, as nonsubjects who can be acted upon outside of the law. This figurative maneuver exemplified by Tracking Transience speaks to the broader relationship among surveillance, late capitalism, and systems of control as outlined by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, among others. While...

... paired with postmodernism or that more appropriate label, late capitalism, and no matter how much time he devotes to the first great gesture of modernity, realism. In fact, I want to argue—with Jameson against Jameson—that his conception of theory is not at all postmodern and that, of the three basic...

... future? Rather than answer the former (the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and other terrors of capitalism) to arrive at the latter (communism, postwork utopia, etc.), we might think of future lifetimes through idle time in the present — against the speeding up and accelerationist tendency of late...

... the sensuousness and emotional texture of life, and in that sense it draws us to the aesthetic dimension. This aesthetic dimension is of course a feature of late capitalism, and yet, it is not, we must assume, fully subsumed by it. Some affects have been flattened, but other, emotions, sensations, currents...