BEER Group Read. Chap 2. Reg Despard, Artist?!

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/16/13, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jameson's reflections on aspects of postmodernism or late capitalism
> parallel much of Robin Landseadel's here:
>
> "However we may ultimately wish to evaluate this populist rhetoric, it has
> at least the merit of drawing our attention to one fundamental feature of
> all the postmodernisms enumerated above: namely, the effacement in them of
> the older (essentially high-modernist) frontier between high culture and
> so-called mass or commercial culture, and the emergence of new kinds of
> texts infused with the forms, categories, and contents of that very culture
> industry so passionately denounced by all the ideologues of the modern, from
> Leavis and the American New Criticism all the way to Adorno and the
> Frankfurt School. The postmodernisms have, in fact, been fascinated
> precisely by this whole “degraded” landscape of schlock and kitsch, of TV
> series and Reader’s Digest culture, of advertising and motels, of the late
> show and the grade-B Hollywood film, of so-called paraliterature, with its
> airport paperback categories of the gothic and the romance, the popular
>  biography, the murder mystery, and the science fiction or fantasy novel:
> materials they no longer simply “quote” as a Joyce or a Mahler might have
> done, but incorporate into their very substance."
>                                                          ----Jameson, from
> Chap 1 in the book.

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

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
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