Sound bites from "The Poetics of the Dialectic"

Some (approximate) quotes from Dr. Jameson's lecture and Q&A:

...at the intersection of multiple temporalities, time can appear [be 'represented']...

Marxist time/history invites "side-taking."

The Odyssey expresses "the defeat of exile" and "the secret language of the defeated."

through role reversals, mistaken identities, etc, the slave appears and can only be represented in epic through such acts of "unmasking" [anagnorisis]

...pathos is a spectacle to divert attention form the true suffering of slavery (the forced labor of exploitation) and the abundance it produces.

"Ethics are not politics, and traditional humanist values are not a political answer..."

if anyone has more accurate versions of the paraphrases, please correct me in the comments section.

Jameson (via Cole) in Flagpole

Andrew Cole, professor of English at The University of Georgia, is featured in this week's Flagpole magazine announcing Dr. Jameson's visit to UGA and commenting on Postmodernism and Archaeologies of the Future. The article is here. A wry explication of some of Jameson's work, "Marxist Postmodernist Jameson Looms" will no doubt produce some inspired letters-to-the-editor.

Postmodernism, OTCLOLC part III

Please post your questions and comments here...

Special Notice

The reading group has changed its meeting days. New schedule as follows:

Wednesday, February 8th: POTCLOLC conclusion
Wednesday, February 15th: Archaeologies Part 1
Tuesday, February 21st: Archaeologies Part 2

Meetings are at 7pm, upstairs at the Globe.

Please make a note and please support the French Film Festival, which prompted this change.

Postmodernism, OTCLOLC part II

Once more, please share your thoughts...

PMLA essay on PM:OTCLOLC

the essay of which i spoke at the Jameson reading group last is titled "The Dark Wood of Postmodernity (Space, Faith Allegory)" and appears in PMLA 120.3 (2005): 734-50.
i.e.
"... allegory comes to stand as a placeholder--in much of Jameson's work--for cognitive mapping: postmodern networks may not be mappable, but contemporary phenomena are allegorizeable as the symptoms of postmodernism. Allegory appears as the productive sublimation of a cartographic drive; the allegorical operation substitutes hermeneutic certainty for cartographic clarity while sharing the same incorporative ambitions" (737).


& etc.

The Political Unconscious

Please respond to this post with a critical question or two from The Political Unconscious.