IVIV (1) context: Jameson

[Doug Millison]

Thanks for this. All those BEAUTIFUL new buildings!  No wonder so many  
of them make us feel uncomfortable in ways that we can't quite  
articulate - the taint remains. It's there in Pynchon's writing for  
me, too.

alice:
> It will therefore not be surprising to find the
> extraordinary flowering of the new postmodern architecture grounded in
> the patronage of multinational business, whose expansion and
> development is strictly contemporaneous with it. Later I will suggest
> that these two new phenomena have an even deeper dialectical
> interrelationship than the simple one-to-one financing of this or that
> individual project. Yet this is the point at which I must remind the
> reader of the obvious; namely, that this whole global, yet American,
> postmodern culture is the internal and superstructural expression of a
> whole new wave of American military and economic domination throughout
> the world: in this sense, as throughout class history, the underside
> of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror.
>
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm