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...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...

...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...

..., and strategies in Pakistan . Lahore: Shirkat Gah. Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF POSTMODERN CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, AND FUNDAMENTALISM The main question I...

...Sulgi Lie This article juxtaposes two 2011 Hollywood films— Shame , directed by Steve McQueen, and Drive , directed by Nicolas Winding Refn—that in their mutations of narrative time and cinematic montage demonstrate the ongoing salience of Fredric Jameson’s Marxist analysis of postmodern culture...

...Ann Pellegrini; Jasbir Puar This essay traces Fredric Jameson's important early analyses of the waning of affect and disappearance of the depth psychological subject under conditions of postmodernism, arguments he developed over the course of several essays in Social Text —beginning, in fact...

... directly with the politics of the feminist movement, and credits Ellen Willis and Alice Echols, especially, with establishing in the 1980s a Social Text brand of feminism based on constructionism and materialism. The essay traces the engagement of feminist theory with postmodernism in the journal's pages...

... context. The comparison of the “postmodern savage” series entitled the Caliban Codex , part of an exhibition mounted at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City (1992), with more recent work exhibited at the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver (2006) reveals how Durham continues to vex the simple...

... used to synthesize or even resolve the conflicting conceptual apparatuses of postmodernism (a term derived from aesthetic, humanistic, and cultural methodological questions) and globalization (a term derived from political economic, social, and cultural methodological questions). By attending...

... our world; it now threatens to extinguish it. References Anderson Perry . 1998 . The Origins of Postmodernity . New York : Verso . Apter Emily Freedgood Elaine . 2009 . “ Afterword .” Representations 108 : 139 – 46 . Arrighi Giovanni . 1994 . The Long...

..., matter, reality, being, and ontology, as opposed to what it sees as the irredeemably culturalist tendencies of postmodern theory, with its penchant for text, discourse, subjectivity, ideology, and epistemology. Such pat distinctions are challenging to defend, however, and the “new” materialism...

... questions at the intersection of postcoloniality and postmodernity, two continents of the mind whose relationship remains, even today despite important work done by important scholars (including Pal Ahluwalia, Achille Mbembe, and Walter Mignolo), perversely undertheorized. As long as these objects stay...

... binarisms have also haunted coalitionary work along the whole spectrum of the Left, particu- larly when issues of multiculturalism and feminism have been at stake. The postmodern abandonment of the Universal has continued to pro- duce anxieties about how to defend women’s and gay/lesbian rights given...

... Irritating the Insides This is an essay about irritation. In one sense, it is a report on the state of interdisciplinary knowledge formation from the field. It asks: What is the promise of interdisciplinary studies in the postmodern research univer- sity? The results of this fieldwork are not encouraging...

... in the American West.3 It took the inventiveness of Italian social thinkers to turn this cursory account of workers’ desires “to become independent landowners” into an anticipation of the postmodern multitude. While Hardt and Negri consider this kind of exodus “a powerful form of class struggle,” Virno...

... respect culture? American Journal of Political Science 44 (3): 405 -18. Miller, Toby. 1993 . The well-tempered self:Citizenship, culture, and the postmodern subject . Baltimore, Md.:Johns Hopkins University Press. Ong, Aihwa. 1999 . Flexible citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality...

... Is the Post-­ in Postsocialism the Post-­ in Posthumanism? Shu-­mei Shih It has been twenty years since Kwame Anthony Appiah’s sharply criti- cal essay, “Is the Post-­ in Postmodernism the Post-­ in Postcolonial brought to our attention the deep complicities of the postcolonial intel- lectual...

..., “Postscript to School Is a Factory,” 252. See also Toscano and Kinkle, Cartographies of the Absolute , 229–32. 9 See Baltz, Texts . 10 Baltz, “Review of The New West ,” 41. 12 Jameson, Postmodernism , 39–44, 108–30. 13 Jameson, “End of Temporality,” 710. 14...

...- tural and technical labor, after the demolition job carried out by thirty years of postmodernism? The postmodern socialist feminism of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” spelled out some of the reasons behind the antipathy...