I developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy, emphasizing the connections between the arts and the historical circumstances of their creation and reception. I'm really smart, so I've managed to chart the stylistic and ideological movement from realism through modernism and into postmodernism, a sequence, I argue, that parallels capitalism's successive mutations from mercantilism and industrialism into its later monopoly and global or speculative stages.I like Marx a whole bunch.My guiding premise is that cultural artifacts are oblique representations of their historical circumstances, whose concrete social contradictions they variously distort, repress, and transform through the abstractions of aesthetic form. The principal responsibility of the critic is not--as most humanists typically assume--to enhance our appreciation of a work's aesthetic qualities but to lay bare its roots in political and economic conditions and to explain how and why these roots have been obscured.
My Interests
I'd like to meet:
The Actual Fredric Jameson! Yes! This is merely a fan's myspace page. The intention of which is to give other fans of Fredric Jameson, those who are also fans of the multiverse, an opportunity to meet, to speak, and to expound.
