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Fredric Jameson Introduction Sociology
Introduction
- Born 1934
- American
- Postmodern thinker
- Marxist theorist
- Literary critic
Books
- The Political Unconsciousness, 1981
- The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983 - 1998
- Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , 1991
- A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present. London & New York Verso. 2002.
- Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London & New York: Verso. 2005.
- The Modernist Papers, 2007
Modernity vs. Post Modernity
- Modernity
- Abstract painting
- High buildings
- Modern poetry, literature, films, etc.
- Post modernity
- Downgraded films
- Sci-fi based
- Duplicates
- mockery
- He compared:
- Vincent Van Gogh՚s “Peasant Shoes” as Modernity dominated work
- Andy Warhol՚s “Diamond Dust Shoes” as post-modernity dominated work
- Peasant shoes
- Represents misery of peasants
- Poverty
- Rural areas
- Toil and labour
- Loneliness
- Diamond dust shoes
- Consumer society
- Fetishism with commodity
- Lack of authenticity
- No emotions depicted
- Random collective objects
Views on Post Modernity
- No single reality
- Realities are contrasting
- Concepts are totalised
- Fragments are accepted
- Lack of authentic self
- Lack of historical continuity
- Abandons historical memories
Concept
- A loss of our connection to history
- A cultural form associated with a new stage in Mode of Production
- The stages of this MoP:
- Tribal
- Ancient communal
- Feudal
- Capitalist
- Communist (Eutopia)
Capitalist MoP
- Consists of two elements:
- Market capital
- Monopoly or Imperialism
- Both combine to become cultural capitalism
Post-Modernity as Cultural Capital
- Late capitalism
- Consumer society
- Globalization
- High science and technology
- Historical deafness
- No emotions
MCQs
Q.1. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ________ capitalism.
(A) market
(B) monopoly
(C) imperialist
(D) multinational
Ans D
Q.2. Match the items of List – I with those of List – II and give the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I (Books)
a. Enchanting a disenchanted world
b. Writing and Difference
c. Post-Modernism, or the Cultural Logic of late Capitalism
d. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
List – II (Authors)
1. J. Derrida
2. Ritzer
3. M. Foucault
4. F. Jameson
Codes:
(A) a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
(B) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
(C) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
(D) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
Answer: (C)
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