Unpacking Jameson's Political Unconscious, Pt. 1 | Nightmare Tonight

[@poyo6495]

i subscribed for petscop, but that's over, so i guess communist theory will do nicely

[@jameswalker7382]

I'm very happy to have found this video. I am an enormous fan of the Political Unconscious and have been very disappointed that virtually every other attempt to explain the concept has really skipped over the methodological exposition, which is by far the part of the book which I find most interesting (and I think Jameson feels that way too - the rest of the book feels mostly like a "proof of concept" for the thunderously powerful first chapter.)

[@NightmareMasterclass]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@Dorian_sapiens]

This unpacking is greatly appreciated. I enjoyed the Disco Elysium video but found parts of it quite difficult to follow, because I didn't do the assigned reading. 😞 And I'm happy to add "ideological closure" (with respect to class interests) to my vocabulary, as another way to name what I've heard some people refer to as the "liberal mind prison" and what I think of as "reverse class consciousness".

[@hpalpha7323]

Always in the mood for philosophical discussion

[@devidpayeng350]

14:00 ⭐️

[@rowlandrobinson4714]

I found your channel a long time ago through I guess the "horror sphere" on YT (NightMind, channels like that), but I've been re-watching some of your older posts with my sister, and now I am watching your Jameson ones. I'm a big Jameson fan myself, and Jameson's takes are very influential on my own (especially on modernity/postmodernity), and as also a big fan or horror, Wham City, media like Petscop & DHIMS, and stuff like that it's really great to see the sub-sphere that brings those sorts of interests together. Anyway, that's a too long pre-amble to say that I caught in this video your mention that you are working through "Reading Capital" by Althusser et al. and I just wanted to mention that, if you haven't, you might want to also check out Althusser's more full-on engagements with ideology/ideological critique. The shorter version would be the essay collection "On Ideology", which Verso just put out a new version of. The content of that book was also part of a larger book-length treatment which went unpublished during Althusser's life, and even later in English, but a couple of years ago Verso did put out a pretty good English translation "On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." Althusser's tale on ideology, as your probably know, is a major thread that runs through Jameson, along with Raymond Williams’ distinctions regarding “residual,” “emergent,” and “dominant” ideological formations (which he unpacks in "Marxism and Literature" & "Culture & Materialism").

[@TapDat52K]

I was waiting for this video since you started DE. Good stuff. Makes you wonder when the next steps in society will be taken to move from capitalism to socialism.

[@xiaodongwang7753]

Thank you, Nightmare Nightclass. I actually come here from the Free Yale Course of Professor Paul Fry, whose explanation of Fredric Jameson, in my humble opinion, is inferior compared with yours. Great references, too.

[@Beeyo176]

40 minutes flew by like nothing

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

I came for the horror, I stayed for the communism. GothCom Gang 🔥⚰️🦇⚰️🔥

[@NightmareMasterclass]

I like the ring of that.

[@terminal-vl3rj]

with most of your videos i can understand your ideas very well even though i haven't read many of the works you reference, but here im gonna be honest i have no idea what your talking about

[@NightmareMasterclass]

Have you watched my series called The Theorist's Handbook or my Critical Approaches series on DHMIS? That might be a good place to start if you're totally lost. A big hurdle is just learning the terminology. Email me at if you have specific questions.

[@terminal-vl3rj]

@@NightmareMasterclass ive watched most of your other stuff already and enjoyed it