Category Archives: Fredric Jameson

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series Fredric Jameson turns 90 years old this month. To celebrate this milestone, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Daniel Hartley on Sartre: The Origins of a … Continue reading →

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Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90

Posted on April 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90 In honor of Fredric Jameson‘s 90th birthday this month, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Here, Daniel Hartley revisits Jameson’s first book, Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024 and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, ed. Octavian Esanu – Repeater, 2024

Posted on February 10, 2024 by stuartelden

As if the book The Years of Theory I posted about earlier this week wasn’t enough, two more works by Fredric Jameson this year… Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 [updated to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 2, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on November 29, 2023 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

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

Posted on July 15, 2014 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 4, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

List and details here.

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by stuartelden

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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