Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“. . . it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence" as that… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its daily life). This means... that the novel is also a vehicle of creative destruction. Its function, in some properly capitalist ‘cultural revolution’, is the perpetual undoing of traditional narrative paradigms and their replacement, not by new paradigms, but… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.” — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art...… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
