Fredric Jameson at the University of Toronto

[GreenmeGo]

A great great guy.

[nelrish24]

nicely done !

[DublB3000]

cyber what?

[neve1073]

where is the rest of this lecture?

[JRS1982]

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[KaiKrans]

ok. moral relativity is essential for humans as a race that wants to dominate this galaxy at the very least. feelings associated w/ making money are not unknown, activates the same part of the brain as COCSAINE

[sgtmcwallace]

great stuff

[turisbeggiu]

Is there anyone who can transcribe this discourse or indicate where I can find the published text of this lecture, please? Thanks

[neve1073]

@turisbeggiu

i'm wondering the same. Where can i find this text?

[wdanieljordan]

What an unfortunate skip at 5:26: Right from the themes of global reification are varied to utopia. Can someone help me out with the transition?

[obesechicken13]

Are all UT classes this large and hectic?

[wdanieljordan]

dude isn't this a lecture?

[PlayStationHidden]

i hope to be in this university one day!! can someone who's alrdy in it tell me a bit about it please??

[tomsega]

I get the impression Jameson lacks a certain degree of fame simply due to being an American with a regular-Joe surname, rather than a colourful cigar-smoking Parisian intellectual..!!

[lysis28]

An important lecture. If not seminal. Thanks for posting. Of course, for those who might be apprehending his work for the first time, I'd heartily recommend "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (2005).

[drmodestoesq]

@lysis28 I believe that essay was published in 1991.

[Tonyalanpinkney]

Yes, our greatest living theorist of utopia in action - a crucial spokesperson for hope in a dark political epoch ...

[DoctorFist]

ooh nicely said

[gracer99]

@Tonyalanpinkney the central problem is not political, it's technological

[neverbeenfree]

What on earth did you regard as inspirational? Jameson did nothing here. The audience is comprised of corpses. I got nothing out of this clip. Marx, globalism? The geezer is incomprehensible. He left Duke, which is a pro-globalist cesspool, so he must have some reservations, even though he is a Marxist. At any rate, the geezer said nothing here. I think he shat his pants, nothing else.

[mikebott]

always historicize.

[plutoohno]

i feel like jameson is too quick to historicize; remember benjamins plea not to over-historicize; to keep the possibilities of a given moment in history open so that their revolutionary potential and radical traditions may become an intergenerational task.

[tomsega]

His point is the postmodern sign represents a radical new era of aesthetic dominance, of the domination of commodity exchange-value, in which the only way of regaining some political and ethical ground is to historicize at all times! Benjamin's project was firmly rooted in Modernity, if we are to historicize him. 'Mechanical reproduction' said little of the saturation we experience today. You have to read Jameson as belonging to a radically different era to that of Lukacs, Adorno, Gramsci, etc

[bluemonolith88]

@tomsega what's the saturation you're talking about?

[Marenqo]

jameson is great - duke uni (Hardt, Jameson and all those progressive Chinese PM students) is great, though in the UK

[BrazilianRobcol]

Thanks for posting this. Jameson's thoughts and ideas have been a major inspiration to me so it was wonderful to watch this!