Fredric Jameson

“Conspiracy theory is the poor person's cognitive mapping in the postmodern age.”

“Postmodernism is the cultural logic of late capitalism.”

“The problem to be solved is that of breaking out of the windless present of the postmodern back into real history, into the reality of the historical process.”

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”

“The truth of experience no longer coincides with the place in which it takes place.”

“Genre is a socio-symbolic message.”

“The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.”

“The political unconscious is the repressed and buried reality of our social life.”

“History is what hurts, it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis.”

“The aesthetic is, in this sense, the privileged bearer of the political and the revolutionary.”

“Always historicize!”

“Utopia... now better expresses our relationship to a genuinely political future than any current program of action.”