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Indlæser... Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998 (1998)af Fredric Jameson
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Ironically in light of Colin MacCabe's genuinely moronic back-cover blurb to the effect that "it can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him", Jameson's unexpected shining moment here is in connecting the tripartite "M-C-M" movement of money (liquid acquisition, capitalization, "solid" acquisition--land, factories, etc.) in Capital with the rise of the postmodern financial sector--the sign of a neoimperial capitalism that has extended itself as far as possible, as with the old imperial financial centres of the early 20th century, and then the intensive turn, "the feverish search not so much for new markets--as these are also saturated--as for the new kind of profits available in financial transactions themselves and as such". But then, he connects it too with land, which from our perspective seems so apparent as to be almost quaint, but from a Marxist perspective that theorizes capital value as labour and exchange value, is evidently a relief to him, twenty years back--land is not a capital refuge, it's the last deterritorialization, in the Anti-Oedipus sense--the deterritorialization of territory itself, its transformation into the biggest bonanza of liquidity ever. Welcome to the subprime crisis! It's the Spanish Empire and Inca silver all over again!
Man, that's depressing. And all Jameson can think to do with this insight is a little minianalysis of Rockefeller Center's development history and the referentiality of postmodern architecture, no longer the modern phallus, no longer the storehouse of treasure. Super interesting, but you wonder if he's now wishing he could appear to his younger self in a dream and cause him to make those few missing connections. And then what? To the IMF? Nobody ever listens to prophetic Marxist savants, even when they should (49% of the time at most). ( )