Fredric Jameson Named the System We Are Still Fighting
Obituary/ October 3, 2024
The late literary critic renewed Marxism to review our postmodern and globalized truth.
Fredric Jameson in São Paulo.(Creative Commons)
Being a Marxist in America is a typically overwelming fate, as the imposing literary critic Fredric Jameson, who passed away last month at the age of 90, found in 1991. That's when he discovered that, almost twenty years previously, he and his good friends had actually been knocked to the FBI by an author he treasured and promoted, Philip K. Dick.
In the early 1970s, Dick was far from the mostly posthumous popularity he would amass through Hollywood adjustments (beginning with Blade Runnerlaunched in 1982 soon after his death). Much more far-off was the ultimate canonization of Dick by the literary facility that would se...