Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, c1991
Descript
xxii, 438 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
SUMMARY
This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature
CONTENT
Culture : the cultural logic of late capitalism -- Ideology : theories of the postmodern -- Video : surrealism without the unconscious -- Architecture : spatial equivalents in the world system -- Sentences : reading and the division of labor -- Space : utopianism after the end of utopia -- Theory : immanence and nominalism in postmodern theoretical discourse -- Economics : postmodernism and the market -- Film : nostalgia for the present -- Conclusion : secondary elaborations