The Ancients and the Postmoderns keyword-class-struggle resistance fighters

resistance fighters

Opposing both the sociological reductionism of Plekhanov or Lukács

the pleasures of translation

are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking

Michael Graves

The Ancients and the Postmoderns keyword-class-struggle resistance fightersHigh modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jamesons major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from Eurotrash in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which attempt, in their different ways, to invent