"It is safest to grasp the concept of……" — Fredric Jameson
"It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place."
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Fredric Jameson
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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses,…
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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic…
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It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this…
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