Philosopher Fredric Jameson, author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, dies at 90

Philosopher Fredric Jameson died on September 22 in Durham, North Carolina. He was 90 years old. News of Jameson’s passing was shared by London Review of Books. Since 1985, Jameson has been professor of comparative and romantic literature at Duke University. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism was arguably Jameson’s best known book where, in 1991, he referenced Robert Venturi, Charles Moore, Michael Graves, Frank Gehry, John Portman and other architects to explore the schism between high modernism and postmodernism; and that schism’s cultural, political, and economic ramifications more broadly.

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