After Sianne Ngai's great talk yesterday on The Political Unconscious, I'm re-upping these two essays I wrote recently on the work of Fredric Jameson:
"History Is What Hurts: On Old Materialism"
"Meditations on Last Philosophy"
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Ngai's most recent book is Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form.