Reading Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson, the American cultural critic is one of the foremost literary critic living in our times today. Jameson’s theoretical standpoint is from a Marxist outlook. He shares his place along with the post Marxist scholars such as Louis Althusser, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin and other thinkers from the Frankfurt School. Jameson’s two major works are The Political Unconscious (1981) and Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (the first part initially published as an essay in 1984, the completed version was published in 1991). In this particular essay he has a suspicious attitude towards the new shift in culture, aesthetics in art, film, media, which is often labelled as postmodern, which is strikingly different from its earlier predecessor, the modernist movement. Jameson refuses to call this shift in culture as a new label. Rather to him, it is a new way of the bourgeoisie, the capitalist forces to perpetuate the forces of capitalism in the soci...