Category Archives: Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024

Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024 No other information at the moment, but it is 544 pages long…

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The Theory Variations: An Interview with Fredric Jameson by Jason Demers

The Theory Variations: An Interview with Fredric Jameson by Jason Demers (open access) Thanks to Robert Tally for the link. Some interesting discussion of the early days of ‘French theory’ in the United States.

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Books received (2) – Hyppolite, Mauss, Wollstonecraft, Jameson, Benveniste, Forestal & Philips, Besteman

The papers from Hyppolite’s final seminar (including pieces by Derrida and Althusser), Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, some works by Emile Benveniste, Fredric Jameson’s The Prison-House of Language, Jennifer Forestal and … Continue reading

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Robert T. Tally Jr. – Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism

Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert Tally, newly published in the Marxism and Culture Series at Pluto Press: Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and … Continue reading

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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Critical-Theory.com’s five books that came out in October – Balibar, Spanos, Morton, Jameson, Hancox

List and details here.

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The AAG meeting

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading

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Interview with Frederic Jameson in the Duke Chronicle

Interview with Frederic Jameson in The Duke Chronicle – topics include philosophy and literature, interdisciplinary work, postmodernism and politics.

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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek on The Wire

Link to audio and story here. Also provides the link to the Fredric Jameson piece I mentioned some time back.

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