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The Cultural Turn

Selected Writings on the Postmodern

1983-1998

FREDRIC JAMESON

VERSO

London • New York

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Perry Anderson

1 Postmodernism and Consumer Society

2 Theories of the Postmodern

3 Marxism and Postmodernism

4 The Antinomies of Postmoderniy

5 'End of Art' or 'End of History'?

6 Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity

9 3

7 Culture and Finance Capital

136

8 The Brick aid the Balloon: Architecture, Idealism

and Land Speculation

162

Notes

191

Index

201