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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 809.91 EAN: 9780822310907 ISBN: 0822310902 Label: Duke University Press Manufacturer: Duke University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 472 Publication Date: 1991-12 Publisher: Duke University Press Studio: Duke University Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An Endless Play of Random SignifersJameson has postmodernism as the endless play of random signifiers. The difficulty with this is that there is zilch new with mysterious signfiers being batted around. 2000 years ago each port on the trade route brought a city which was totally unlike the city of orginination. That every detail didn't make sense wasn't a difficulty then and isn't a difficulty now. Postmodernism as described by Jameson isn't a new aporia that the individual for the first time is confronting today. The solution to ... Read More Rating:  - ImpressiveJameson's book is, if the subject is somewhat redundant some 18 years after publication, altogether proving of Jameson's brilliance, not merely in his critical analysis of attitudes toward the visual arts and men of letters, but in his synopsis of philosophical and cultural underpinnings of this phenomenon. He is somewhat scathing but fair in his treatment. I highly recommend this impressive volume to anyone--willing to take on the challenge--seriously interested in recent culture and arts critique. ... Read More Rating: - Not for those lacking in vocabularyA thorough, yet occasionally vague study of postmodernism. Jameson's flowery, somewhat esoteric writing style should be wrestled with care, as your journey through this book will most likely be met with more dead ends and re-readings than an actual elucidation of the topic, as the words "Yeah, okay...but what does that mean?" will probably pop into your head from time to time. Of course, the author is a distunguished critic and writer, and the book reflects that. However, if your aim is to get a brief ... Read More Rating:  - The Cultural Logic of Late CapitalismThe term, Postmodernism refers to the cultural and ideological configuration that is taken to have replaced or be replacing Modernity. New movements in architecture and the arts as well as social theories indicate a change from modernity to postmodernity. Frederic Jameson, an American Marxist social theorist and the author of the book, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, draws the attentions to the differences in culture between the modern and postmodern periods. In order to explain his ... Read More Rating: - mind stretchingBeing an engineer, I prefer not to be carried away with my use of words, but this book just makes, channels the reader talk, think, again talk on it in the ways he/she is not very used to. Nevertheless, this is a good exercise in the broadest sense of the word for everybody. It should be so actively read that I can even recommend it to those who would like to lose weight. 
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