Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series
Our series honoring Fredric Jameson's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy.
To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre:
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.
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