The "logic' of late capitalism

[Mark Kohut]

Syllogism:
If, just sayin', AtD is a 'subversive' work per my last post. 

Or, if there is at least one subversive work written by an American writer
and available globally, even translated as well,

And it presents a critique of 'late captialism" or American hegemony.

Then, although it is a "product' of that American hegemony, in some literal sense,  it also IS NOT a "product" AT ALL.....



--- On Fri, 8/28/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV VL Treatment of Mental Illness & Prison Populations
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 8:19 AM
> 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.
> >
> 
>