Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934.
To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.
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i object to the pre-digested affective-moral position of much recent art: structural ambiguity and you're supposed to feel a certain way when you're done consuming. brings art ever closer to entertainment.
@wdavidmarx remarkable how contemporary aesthetics presupposes a political dimension--i think of it as an inability to keep form and allegorical interpretation separate
filho's bacarau was surprisingly weak: premised on allegorical literalness, affective immediacy, and moral over-resolution, it already feels dated, a protest movie which like much art in the streaming era, tells you exactly how to feel. i only hope the secret agent is better.
finally read mansfield park. even if fanny is a prig, her judgment redeems her. i was more shocked by the resolution of cousin marriage than any of the other scandals.
but ultimately its postmodern skepticism prevents it from reaching the heights of great novels, such as nausea, for example, which offers a more affirmative risk at its end
i'm reading john fowles' the magus years after my high school english teacher suggested the strangeness of revising a novel after publishing it. having searched for the original (1965), i finally decided to read the one available (1978) and i am pleased to say i am enjoying it
re the monuments show @MOCAlosangeles: a future with more diverse monuments, sure, and not just racially but intellectually—artists, thinkers, writers, astronauts. Towards a people unburdened by history with the imagination to change things; not just taking down but building up.