A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present

 

A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
by Authors: Fredric Jameson
Released: November, 2002
ISBN: 1859844502
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Sales Rank: 41,014

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Between perpectivalist situation and global-capital mandate

Jameson forges a backing-and-filling book that gives his own congnitive mapping of postmodernity and cultural capitalist glut a new dimensionality and openness worthy of a vigilant, innovative, and necessary world critic, which Jameson has been all along. A version of critical sublimity, building a post Marxist US system "lest we be enslaved by another system," namely the Bush 2 war machine and its media somnambulists and new historical evaders. Not exactly beach reading in Irvine, A Singular Modernity gives modernity/postmodernity a capacious new figuration somewhere between the greed of Fashion Island and the innovative ethos of Venice Beach, but spreading outward and less in a mood to "take dominion everywhere" than to be a Jamesonian vase, customized and made for global/local planetary road use.


 
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