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Imagining a Space That Is Outside

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Cevasco, ME
Published in: the minnesota review
May 1, 2012

Fredric Jameson, in dialogue with his Brazilian translator Maria Elisa Cevasco, begins this interview by discussing his earliest influences: Jean-Paul Sartre, G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, structuralism, dialectics, and psychoanalysis. Prompted by Cevasco, Jameson revisits his most famous categorical inventions: the political unconscious, transcoding, and cognitive mapping. Discussing the global situation today, he suggests that because of its location on the outside, a Third World power such as Brazil enjoys an epistemological advantage over the United States, which rarely thinks of its own outside and therefore has difficulties with cognitive mapping. The much needed counterweight to American power will have to come from the superior vantage point of such an outside position. Addressing the problematic of representation, the conjunction between art and politics, and the importance of periodization, Jameson describes his ongoing project: a grouping of books called “The Poetics of Social Forms.” This series actually culminates with his previous books Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, and, as Jameson moves backward in time, will be preceded with three new volumes on realism, allegory, and myth. He describes his own cultural analysis as an attempt to uncover the contradictory situations that produced solutions in the form of culture, literature, art, philosophy, technology, politics, or history. He attributes the famous difficulty of his sentences to their trying to make connections among all kinds of problems, situations, or contradictions.

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the minnesota review

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2157-4189

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0026-5667

Publication Date

May 1, 2012

Volume

2012

Issue

78

Start / End Page

83 / 94

Publisher

Duke University Press

Related Subject Headings

  • 47 Language, communication and culture
  • 20 Language, Communication and Culture
 

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Cevasco, M. E. (2012). Imagining a Space That Is Outside. The Minnesota Review, 2012(78), 83–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-1550653
Cevasco, Maria Elisa. “Imagining a Space That Is Outside.” The Minnesota Review 2012, no. 78 (May 1, 2012): 83–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-1550653.
Cevasco ME. Imagining a Space That Is Outside. the minnesota review. 2012 May 1;2012(78):83–94.
Cevasco, Maria Elisa. “Imagining a Space That Is Outside.” The Minnesota Review, vol. 2012, no. 78, Duke University Press, May 2012, pp. 83–94. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00265667-1550653.
Cevasco ME. Imagining a Space That Is Outside. the minnesota review. Duke University Press; 2012 May 1;2012(78):83–94.
Journal cover image

Published In

the minnesota review

DOI

EISSN

2157-4189

ISSN

0026-5667

Publication Date

May 1, 2012

Volume

2012

Issue

78

Start / End Page

83 / 94

Publisher

Duke University Press

Related Subject Headings

  • 47 Language, communication and culture
  • 20 Language, Communication and Culture