Posts tagged: author-beaumont-matthew

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  Intense Curiosity: Jameson's The Prison-House of Language

  Fredric Jameson's Prison House of Language (1972) is inspiring, Matthew Beaumont writes, because of the author's 'intense curiosity' vis-a-vis the Russian Structuralists. For Jameson's 90th birthday, Beaumont revisits the text, which he describes as anomalous in the theorist's oeuvre.
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  The muscles of the colonized

  Matthew Beaumont explores Ernst Bloch’s theory that posture and gait are a reliable guide to one’s relative state of social alienation or disalienation.