Monthly Review | The Necessity of a Universal Project
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Monthly Review | The Necessity of a Universal Project
Postmodernism can be construed as the name for the complex of crises that the decline in the belief in the big Other has triggered, as Lyotard’s famous formulation of the postmodern condition – ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’ –suggests. Jameson, of course, would argue that the ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’ is one expression of the
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Notes from Postmodernism by Frederic Jameson
Introduction
“The moderns were interested in what was likely to come of such changes and their general tendency: they thought about the thing itself, substantively, in Utopian or essential fashion. Postmodernism is more formal in that sense, and more “distracted,” as Benjamin might put it; it only clocks
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