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The Future of Totality : Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jameson, Fredric--Criticism and interpretation.
- Jameson, Fredric.
- Marxist criticism.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "At the time of his death in 2024, Fredric Jameson had long been one of the most important Marxist critics in the world, and his vast body of work continues to challenge orthodoxies while retaining close ties to older critical and philosophical traditions - notably dialectical criticism, formal analysis, and utopian discourse. The Future of Totality brings together a selection of Jameson's former students and other prominent scholars thinking from Jameson, rather than writing on him. Emerging from a symposium on Jameson's work that asked what is to be done in response to our current moment, this book seeks to represent future directions of Jamesonian thought in the tradition of dialectical criticism and cultural study. Through four sections reflecting and building on Jameson's legacy, focusing on theory, critical reading of new forms, the reshaping of contemporary problematics, and new dimensions inspired by the scholar, this volume makes its own intervention about the continuity and innovation of Jameson's contributions. Serving as both a tribute to the scholar and a space for thinking about the future of his work, the essays in this volume seek to interpret the world to change it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Writing from Jameson / Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Dura̳o, and Robert T. Tally Jr.
- Theory
- Thresholds of the Concept / Sianne Ngai
- Allegorical Mimesis of the Flowing of All Things: The Search for a Method in Fredric / Jameson's Brecht and Method / Xudong Zhang
- Is Jameson's Theory Althusser's Philosophy? / Eleanor Kaufman
- The Spatial Dialectic in Hegel; or, Asymmetries / Andrew Cole
- The 1960s as Vanishing Mediator; or, From the Symbolic to the Real in Fredric Jameson / Phillip E. Wegner
- New Forms
- Totality Desires: Psychoanalytic Dialectics in Jameson and Kiesling / Anna Kornbluh
- Jameson, the Jukebox Musical, and the Postmodern Pastiche / Ian Buchanan
- Big Marx Energy: Jameson's TikTok Dialectics / Clint Buchanan
- Part III. The Present and the Future
- Late Capitalist Scalings / Kathi Weeks
- Unred: Poetics of Protofascism / Alberto Toscano
- Utopia as Agility / Gerry Canavan
- Toward a New Comparatism: "Third-World Literature" Today / Ericka Beckman
- Part IV. Extrapolations
- A Diagnostic Criticism for the Twenty-First Century / Carolyn Lesjak
- Tax Forms / Michael Denning
- The Contemporary Third-World Novel: Toward a New Humanity / Aisha Karim
- Dialectical Criticism in an Era of Multinational Genocide
- / Henry Schwarz
- Lunch at the Savoy /Richard Dienst
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6245-2
- OCLC:
- 1593996612
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