Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Fredric Jameson turns 90 years old this month. To celebrate this milestone, we're publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre.

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Unintimidated languages – Daniel Hartley

On prophetic form and the whole tangled, dripping mass of the dialectic – Christopher Breu

Intense Curiosity – Matthew Beaumont

On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression – Ian Buchanan

History is what hurts – Maria Elisa Cevasco

Deep Listening – Phillip E. Wegner

Synchronic History – Kristin Ross

Negative Dialectics – C.D. Blanton

Historicizing the Present – Robert T. Tally

Inevitable Negations – Clint Burnham

Orienting towards the social totality – Alberto Toscano

Utopia Hurts – Christian P. Haines

On Brecht and Method – Olivier Neveux

Losing Historicity – Kirk Boyle

The becoming cultural of the economic, and vice versa – Xudong Zhang

Imagining Utopia – Gerry Canavan

Rereading “On Rereading Doktor Faustus” – Nicholas Brown

Jameson's complex chord – Sianne Ngai

The Rebus in Fredric Jameson's The Hegel Variations – Andrew Cole

Marxist interpretation as a vocation – Anna Kornbluh

The totalising form of a bourgeois life – Steve Edwards

Utopian impulses and the pursuit of totality – Ian Balfour

More class, less discontinuity – Brian Willems

Uncompromising dialectics – Oded Nir

Symptoms of the present – Carolyn Lesjak

Magisterial Figurations – Brittany Murray

See all works by Fredric Jameson here. His new book, Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization is out on May 7.

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Inventions of a Present

by Fredric Jameson

A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best...

Postmodernism

by Fredric Jameson

In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a de...

Representing 'Capital'

by Fredric Jameson

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musica...