I'm getting really into Fredric Jameson's book and I'm interested if anybody has any thoughts about it. He sees postmodern philosophy, architecture, and culture as a signifier of capitalism evolving to it's most ridiculus extremes. Postmodernism came out of the 'linguistic turn' that took place in European philosophy with wittgenstein and structuralism. The focus shifted from society (the real world, social classes, Marxism) to culture (representations of the real world, stereotypes, pop culture.) Postmodernism made everybody more aware of cultural diffrences, and then went beyond being politicaly correct and went completely politicaly insane. All the sudden writers were talking about schizophrenic resistance, fragmentation, and the 'death of the real'. This became very hip, very fashionable, but meanwhile everybody forgot about social problems. It might sound like wishful thinking to you, but when you get into it some of Jameson's ideas are really interesting. He talks a lot about commodification, co-opting, and apropriation. It's not a new book, but it seems like the leading edge of Marxism today. The vanguard of the vanguard. Anybody dig this stuff?
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