Allegory and Ideology

Part 1 of Red Library's My Gott! Pure Ideology Series Comrade Marvin joins us in the library this week to kick off our new ongoing series on ideology by taking on the Big Daddy himself: Fredric Jameson. We take aim at his recent 2019 Verso book, Allegory and Ideology, for this episode and provide a very big picture overview of Jameson's general project and approach to Marxism. Some highlights include discussion of Marxist literary theory, the relationship between literacy and historical interpretation, nationalism, thinking the collective, and soccer. Strap in for this one, comrades! Further Readings/References Fredric Jameson Critical Inquiry Review of Jameson's Allegory and Ideology Periodizing Jameson by Phillip E. Wegner The Political Unconscious Summary Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Summary Algirdas Julien Greimas Sartre's The Critique of Dialectical Reason Summary Raymond Williams Perry Anderson Constructivism Gyorgy Lukacs Mark Fisher Reification Alfred North Whitehead Interview with Jameson on Adapting to Cultural Change Thomas Kuhn ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected]   Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod   Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes   Click here to support Red Library on Patreon   Click here to find Red Library on Facebook   Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front