IV VL Treatment of Mental Illness & Prison Populations

[alice wellintown]

Fredric Jameson (1991)  Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

two sections from Chapter 1 reproduced here



What has happened is that aesthetic production today has become
integrated into commodity production generally: the frantic economic
urgency of producing fresh waves of ever more novel-seeming goods
(from clothing to aeroplanes), at ever greater rates of turnover, now
assigns an increasingly essential structural function and position to
aesthetic innovation and experimentation. Such economic necessities
then find recognition in the varied kinds of institutional support
available for the newer art, from foundations and grants to museums
and other forms of patronage. Of all the arts, architecture is the
closest constitutively to the economic, with which, in the form of
commissions and land values, it has a virtually unmediated
relationship. 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

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:39 AM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the tone, or attitude toward the subject, is off. Tone is
> achieved in several subtle ways, including, diction, punctuation,
> rhythm, allusion, plus a bunch of poetic and rhetorical devices,
> which, in the hands of butchers and demolition specialists, of the
> language, that is, people like me, offends even the ears, not to
> mention the crotch. Where does one get off? Why must one persist? Who
> crowned you OBA's editor and chief? How do you not see the tomfoolery?
>  If only I could write such allusive power! Alas!
>
> The Golden Fang Procedures Handbook, including Section Eight--Hippies,
> deploys  Japonica .... Yes, even Ray-Gun has a soul. almost cut my
> hair. But an IOU in California, as those living out there know, is a
> special case. Warrant. It's also an Investor Owned Utility.  Now what
> has this to do with NY Life's Golden Fang, the Ray-Gun homeless, the
> price of water and oil, Enron and JP Morgan Chase?
>
> You can live without oil. Can you live without oil? So, maybe Enron
> should'n't supply it to the people.
>
> It's a hard rain is gonna fall.
>