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A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric Jameson

cvall96's review

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5.0

Damn good analysis, damn good.

“In the present context, the task would insist in showing everything that is energizing and active about a depersonalizing tendency that has too often been discussed in terms of loss and incapacitation, in demonstrating how such a renunciation of subjectivity, far from amounting to some resignation to an impossible ‘alienating’ condition, stands on the contrary as an original and productive response to it.”

Say it louder for the people in the back, Cool Hand Freddy!!!

gmp's review

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

alexlanz's review

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High modernism was stuck relying on patronage instead of the market to do its experiments, but it's late modernism that formulated the ideology of aesthetic autonomy.
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