Talk:Fredric Jameson

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This is pretty dense stuff.

I wonder if The Political Unconscious shouldn't be flagged also as one of his best-known works. The analysis of it given is brief enough; perhaps it should also mention that he adopts or adapts material not obviously from the left, for example Northrop Frye and the quadriga.

I'm going to attempt some straight copy edits to improve readabiliy.

Charles Matthews 10:53, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Agreed on both counts, and on the need for copyediting. I haven't had a chance yet to read the large additions to this article carefully, but it definitely needs more on Jameson's literary-critical writing as well as his political thought. -- Rbellin|Talk 15:28, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Any editing would be appreciated. I've only begun writing the article and haven't had occasion to properly distribute content in sections or care for readability. Please bear with me; it's ages since I wrote anything serious in English, and Jameson is dauntingly difficult to summarize adequately. The quadriga allusion beats me, though. ¿Care to expatiate? --Taragui 02:08, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Quadriga is sometimes used for the four-level medieval scheme of Biblical interpretation literal/allegorical/tropological/teleological. Wikipedia may not have caught up with this, yet. Charles Matthews 08:46, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ah. Litera res gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia, right? I didn't know about the term (though I had quite my share of the stuff reading the Church Fathers). Will add that when I have some time. Could you pinpoint me to a specific locus in Jameson for his take on the stuff? Thanks. Taragui 11:19, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

The Political Unconscious, Chapter 1, section II on Frye: '... Frye's work comes before us as a virtual contemporary invention of the four-fold hermeneutic ...'; so he nearly equates the two, explaining that in the following pages. Charles Matthews 12:05, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I'm a bit baffled by the section "the critique of postmodernism." This gives the reader the impression that Jameson is an adversary of pomo, whereas if you read him carefully Jameson celebrates postmodern art at least as much as he critiques it. And you yourself mention this at the end of the section, where you talk about his critics' perception that he'd endorsed pomo. This sub-heading should be edited, don't you think? Nostalgiphile 05:05, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Be bold and rewrite it, although I don't think that Jameson can be construed as an endorser of postmodernity in any sense (apart from considering it an authentic expression of the Zeitgeist, but the authenticity is also a notion to be critiqued). I'm barely active in this wiki nowadays. Best, Taragüí @ 20:38, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Fixed link to New Left Review abstract page for The Politics of Utopia. URL is .org not .net.
chacal la chaise (talk) 23:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Political scam

As documented by Captain's Quarters [1] and Middle Earth Journal[2] somebody registered imwithfred2008.com, originally made a bogus site that linked possible Republican candidate Fred Thompson with the KKK. The registration entry was not hidden very well: Henry Reynolds 500 California Ave. #5 Santa Monica, California 90403 United States

Eventually and currently as of this writing the site points to the Fredric Jameson article page, attempting to hide the original intent. As a 2008 dirty trick about a notable candidate should there be a mention? Should it have its own page and disambiguation? Inquiring minds... TMLutas 01:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Just for history's sake, here's the offending page available at http://www.imwithfred2008.com

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>www.imwithfred2008.com</title> <META name="description" content="Fred Thompson, Fred Tompson, Fred Thomson"><META name="keywords" content="Fred Thompson, Fred Tompson, Fred Thomson"> </head> <frameset rows="100%,*" border="0"> <frame src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson" frameborder="0" /> <frame frameborder="0" noresize /> </frameset> </html>

And there it is TMLutas 03:54, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

This is completely irrelevant to any possible encyclopedic discussion, present or future, about Jameson. I don't really even see any point in preserving the page source or the details about the domain registration here -- it just seems completely irrelevant. -- Rbellin|Talk 00:17, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

The following message removed from the article referred to this. Charles Matthews 19:03, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

http://www.imwithfred2008.com was originally used to smear Fred Thompson's presidential campaign. Please see http://www.imwithfred.com/