The Cultural Turn

Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998

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by Fredric Jameson,

Foreword by PERRY ANDERSON

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Due/Published May 1997, 206 pages, paper

ISBN 1859841821

An overview of Jameson on postmodernism. This volume includes already published essays as well as four recent and previously unpublished pieces on aspects of postmodern architecture and its relationship to political economy. 'Nuff said.

Table of Contents

Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Theories of the Postmodern
Marxism and Postmodernism
The Antinomies of Postmodernity
'End of Art' or End of History'
Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity
Culture and Finance Capital
The Brick and the Balloon: Architecture, Idealism, and Land Speculation