"Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of……" — Fredric Jameson
"Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation."
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Fredric Jameson
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14 Quotes by 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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It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an…
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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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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must…
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and,…
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance…
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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural…
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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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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring…
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for…
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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by…
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