Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Author	Fredric Jameson
Language	English
Subjects	Art criticism; Literary criticism; Marxism; Semiotics;
Publisher	Duke University Press
Publication date	1991
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	461
ISBN	978-0-8223-1090-7
OCLC	21330492
LC Class	PN98.P67 J3 1991

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson, in which the author offers a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective. The book began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review.^[1]^[2] It has been presented as his "most wide-ranging and accessible book".^[3]

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Jameson defines postmodernism as the cultural system of a global, financialized stage of capitalist society. Jameson argues that postmodernism is characterized by a "crisis of historicity," a "waning of affect," and a prevalence of pastiche. He traces these characteristics of postmodernism across a variety of fields and media, including film, television, literature, economics, architecture, and philosophy. In one of his most prominent examples, he draws out the differences between modernism and postmodernism by comparing Van Gogh's “Peasant Shoes” with Andy Warhol's “Diamond Dust Shoes.” For Jameson, postmodernism, as a form of mass-culture driven by capitalism, pervades every aspect of our daily lives.

References

^ Giri, Meenakshi; Kellner, Douglas M., eds. (2001). "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 550–587. ISBN 9780631220954. OCLC 44650979.
^ Jameson, Fredric (July–August 1984). "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". New Left Review. I (146). New Left Review.
^ "Postmodernism". Verso. Retrieved 2023-09-12.

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[1] Giri, Meenakshi; Kellner, Douglas M., eds. (2001). "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 550–587. ISBN 9780631220954. OCLC 44650979.

[2] Jameson, Fredric (July–August 1984). "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". New Left Review. I (146). New Left Review.

[3] "Postmodernism". Verso. Retrieved 2023-09-12.

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v t e Criticism of postmodernism
Concepts	Altermodern Anti-anti-art Hypermodernity Metamodernism Neomodern Neomodernism New sincerity Post-irony Post-postmodernism Remodernism Remodernist film Stuckism International Transmodernism
Critics	Anderson Benson Berman Bricmont Bunge Chomsky Crews Dawkins Dennett Dussel Eagleton Fukuyama Hicks Jameson Kramer Lindsay Paglia Peterson Scruton Sokal Windschuttle
Works	Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) Higher Superstition (1994) Dead White Males (1995) Fashionable Nonsense (1997) Explaining Postmodernism (2004) The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (2006) Cynical Theories (2020)
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