Allegory and Ideology

Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left

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

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