Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

1984/07/31 by Fredric Jameson · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Political Economy and Marxism

paper · doi:10.64590/s2p

Abstract

The last few years have been marked by an inverted millennarianism, in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art, or social class; the ‘crisis’ of Leninism, social democracy, or the . . .

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