Fredric Jameson

Born 14 April 1934 · Died 2024

From Cleveland, Ohio, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

American academic

Quotes

“Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which “culture” has become a veritable “second nature.””
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
“The success story of the word postmodernism demands to be written, no doubt in best-seller format; such lexical neoevents, in which the coinage of a neologism has all the reality impact of a corporate merger, are among the novelties of media society which require not merely study but the establishment of a whole new media-lexicological subdiscipline.”
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
“It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations.”
The Seeds of Time, p. xii
“If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.”
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Chapter 1

Books by Fredric Jameson in order

Books by Fredric Jameson in the order they were published, from Sartre (1961) to Mimesis, Expression, Construction (2024).