Imagine Fredric Jameson--the world's foremost Marxist
critic--kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural
ephemera, generational hype, and Cold War fallout of our
post-post-contemporary landscape. In TheJamesonian Unconscious, a
book as joyful as it is critical and insightful, Clint Burnham
devises unexpected encounters between Jameson and alternative rock
groups, new movies, and subcultures. At the same time, Burnham
offers an extraordinary analysis of Jameson's work and career that
refines and extends his most important themes.
In an unusual biographical move, Burnham negotiates Jameson's major
works--including Marxism and Form, The Political Unconscious, and
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism--by way of
his own working-class, queer-ish, Gen-X background and sensibility.
Thus Burnham's study draws upon an immense range of references
familiar to the MTV generation, including Reservoir Dogs, theorists
Slavoj Zizek and Pierre Bourdieu, The Satanic Verses, Language
poetry, the collapse of state communism in Eastern Europe, and the
indie band Killdozer. In the process, Burnham addresses such
Jamesonian questions as how to imagine the future, the role of
utopianism in capitalist culture, and the continuing relevance of
Marxist theory.
Through its redefinition of Jameson's work and compelling reading
of the political present, TheJamesonian Unconscious defines the
leading edge of Marxist theory. Written in a style by turns
conversational, playful, and academic, this book will appeal to
students and scholars of Marxism, critical theory, aesthetics,
narratology, and cultural studies, as well as the wide circle of
readers who have felt and understood Jameson's influence.
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