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Representing Capital, Fredric Jamesonʹs first book-length engagement with Marxʹs magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marxʹs thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new levels in the same way that capital itself does, stumbling against obstacles that it overcomes by progressive expansions, which are in themselves so many leaps into the unknown. Marxʹs fundamental concepts are not presented philosophically, or in social-scientific terms, but rather as a series of figures produced by the development of the text. Jameson grasps Marxʹs work as a representational problem and an experiment in constructing the figure or model of the inexpressible phenomenon that is capital. -- Publisher description

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CULTURE 1 The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism -- IDEOLOGY 2 Theories of the Postmodern -- 3 Surrealism Without the Unconscious -- ARCHITECTURE 4 Spatial Equivalents in the World System -- SENTENCES 5 Reading and the Division of Labor -- SPACE 6 Utopianism After the End of Utopia -- THEORY 7 Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse -- ECONOMICS 8 Postmodernism and the Market -- FILM 9 Nostalgia for the Present -- CONCLUSION 10 Secondary Elaborations -- Notes -- Index

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."