Week 12 (March 19-25)

cut thread | a chain of shattered signifiers; leaves; no room for peace; the broken record keeps playing an outro over and over again

Fredric Jameson’s seminal work Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late-Capitalism offers a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective. Examining the role of mass media in the formation of contemporary cultures, mass cultures, he describes postmodernism as an imposed but pervasive field that forces us to shape our beliefs in…