Thursday, February 10, 2011

Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Frederic Jameson

This book is a massive cultural study of postmodernism that declines to define postmodernism. I found parts of the book very difficult to follow: the theory was dense (and drew on philosophers with whom I am not familiar). I thought Jameson offered convincing readings of film (in ways that reminded me of the way that film works in Infinite Jest) and architecture especially. This book makes me glad my interests are in the nineteenth century.

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