프레드릭 제임슨의 『포스트모더니즘』의 현재적 가치: 유토피아적 사유의 복원을 위하여
Rereading Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism ‘Here and Now’: Towards the Restoration of Utopian Thinking
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This essay aims at questioning on the present significance of Fredric Jameson’s 1991 book, Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism with the forthcoming publication of its Korean translation. When the homonymous essay was first published in 1984, it immediately spawned both the loudest applauses and the harshest critiques. Yet it made innumerable contributions to our understanding of postmodernism: it successfully articulated the postmodernism with the so-called late capitalism; it provided a concrete foothold upon which we could read the post-1960s’ American culture from a political economic perspective. Particularly, the “cognitive mapping” it suggested as a new spatial political aesthetics taught us how to struggle with the late capitalism that effectively transcends our ability to cognitively map our surroundings. As a translator, however, I would like to ask why we should read this book ‘here and now,’ more than 30 years later after its first publication. What kind of problematics could it address in our 21st-century climate? Finally I will argue that what we should restore from this book and Jameson is the very Utopian thinking, the very aspiration for social change.
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This essay aims at questioning on the present significance of Fredric Jameson’s 1991 book, Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism with the forthcoming publication of its Korean translation. When the homonymous essay was first published in 1984, it immediately spawned both the loudest applauses and the harshest critiques. Yet it made innumerable contributions to our understanding of postmodernism: it successfully articulated the postmodernism with the so-called late capitalism; it provided a concrete foothold upon which we could read the post-1960s’ American culture from a political economic perspective. Particularly, the “cognitive mapping” it suggested as a new spatial political aesthetics taught us how to struggle with the late capitalism that effectively transcends our ability to cognitively map our surroundings. As a translator, however, I would like to ask why we should read this book ‘here and now,’ more than 30 years later after its first publication. What kind of problematics could it address in our 21st-century climate? Finally I will argue that what we should restore from this book and Jameson is the very Utopian thinking, the very aspiration for social change.
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