The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — 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
“. . . 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
“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).… — 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
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
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
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
“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.” — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
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
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
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
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share
