This thinker discussed narrative as a “socially symbolic act” in his book The Political Unconscious. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher and literary critic who analyzed the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and van Gogh’s painting of peasant shoes in a book that opens by describing an “inverted millenarianism.”
ANSWER: Fredric Jameson
[10e] That book is about this period and artistic trend that Jameson calls “the cultural logic of late capitalism.”
ANSWER: postmodernism [reject “modernism”]
[10h] The Political Unconscious opens with this two-word slogan, which Jameson calls “the one absolute … imperative of all dialectical thought.”
ANSWER: Always historicize!
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