How to adapt to cultural change | Fredric Jameson

The career of American philosopher Fredric Jameson is characterized by his permanent intellectual evolution; a career that commenced with his doctoral dissertation about Jean-Paul Sartre in the 1950s and continued with dialectical criticism and semiotics until he became one of the most outstanding theoretical exponents of postmodernism from a multifaceted intellectual perspective with an emphasis on audio-visual media. Ramón del Castillo addresses this autobiographical reflection with him, paying special attention to his style, his way of seeing and doing things, and understanding culture. Jameson claims that the sharpness of the thinker of our time is not a matter of producing solutions but producing problems.
Intellectual Autobiography: Fredric Jameson
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September 12, 2014
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
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[@walkergoff3127]

Only an OG like Jameson could state that the magisterial "The Prison House of Language" was about French Structuralism without also stating that it arrives at its subject by way of Russian Formalism. This guy is truly an encyclopedia of literary, historical, and philosophical knowledge. He's awesome.

[@grandjeanpierre68]

right. and of course he quotes russian and spanish texts in that work, languages that he doesn't speak "with any kind of fluency"

[@shakespearaamina9117]

I love Frederic Jameson!!!!!!

[@dloyfwaymeather977]

LOL! me too

[@xiaodongwang7753]

Fredric

[@grandjeanpierre68]

Uncle Fred and the Maoists 🙂

[@xilin4592]

Charming mind

[@inigorodriguez9222]

Al hilo de la última analogía entre los clásicos y los modernos, siguiendo su aproximación dialéctica nos encontramos ante el postmodernismo con los nuevos bárbaros. Muy buena conversación. Agradecimientos a la Fundación.

[@grandjeanpierre68]

¡y a nuestras universidades!

[@moore7778]

Thank you so much for posting this interview. I particularly valued Prof Jameson's account of 'affect' and what he means by it, which will be of considerable use to students in the Humanities. I'm reading 'The Antinomies of Realism' & this discussion clarified my thinking about the term.

[@miguelangelcontrerasnatera7934]

Excelente entrevista tanto por la profundidad de las respuestas de Fredric Jameson como por las acertadas preguntas de Ramón

[@grandjeanpierre68]

de acuerdo

[@noluntas]

This man is a BEAST💯🔥

[@grandjeanpierre68]

une bête de sexe?

[@MichaelF144]

This man is Awesome!!

[@yny2496]

yes

[@iglesiasrafaeu]

Brilliant.

[@claudiadebianchetti2023]

bravísimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vonwillful]

Kant is the most lovely for Adorno. elegant and transparent, except for elements of Hegel , they hold the dialectic of secular culture open.

[@grandjeanpierre68]

ja

[@johnstewart7025]

From Wiki: In his view, postmodernity's merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole was the result of the colonization of the cultural sphere, which had retained at least partial autonomy during the prior modernist era, by a newly organized corporate capitalism.

[@johnstewart7025]

It occurs to me that to the extent that the "bourgeois" are no longer the owners of the means of production; to the extent that an elite 1% has taken over; then we are in a new economic phase. Undoubtedly, the creators in the cultural sphere will bypass the bourgeois in favor of the elite, as they did in the pre-modern and pre-capitalist period.

[@grandjeanpierre68]

@@johnstewart7025 is it really a 1% elite? from my pov the elite is pretty massive

[@thomaswaller446]

Can anyone tell me where in Jameson's work I can find the form/content diagram that's referred to around 38 minutes in? Thanks!

[@lamarch]

Hi Thomas, it appears in the introduction (page xiv) of Jameson's book "The Modernist Papers" (London, Verso, 2007). Have a good day.

[@thomaswaller446]

@@lamarch Brilliant, thank you!

[@EsatBargan]

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[@grandjeanpierre68]

"this unhappy statement..."

[@Vegan_Reader]

The father of modern linguistics (whatever that means)

[@grandjeanpierre68]

?

[@xilin4592]

Chinese are able to understand the beauty or variety of ways to that kind judgment for they have that taste in culture being in their real life.

[@frncscbtncrt]

? Have you seen most large cities in China? They all look the same, grey buildings, neon light, smog, obedient people, where is the beauty?

[@martinjanecek4950]

@@frncscbtncrt and the large cities in US are what?

[@grandjeanpierre68]

@@frncscbtncrt ?

[@grandjeanpierre68]

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