In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson
argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest
systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a
definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it
has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an
extensive discussion on the cultural landscape-both 'high' and
'low'-of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the
new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of
different fields-from market ideology to architecture, from
painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video
art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson
revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern
critiques of totalization and historical narratives-from the notion
of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious
fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction-while touching on the
nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of
cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This
provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of
postmodernism.
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