Jameson was really hard to understand from page 425-433. First, I am going to focus on the part that I found most interesting that wasn't space or cognitive mapping because I am struggling to understand that nonsense.
"This historical novel can no longer set outt to represent the historical past; it can only 'represent' our ideas and stereotypes about that past (which thereby at once becomes 'pop history')" (419). Our history is learned through simulacra of what we portray as history. Learning through history books, we will only continue to focus on certain aspects of our history.
Jameson focuses on capitalism's affect on all the systems that are in place. I don't know how he critics everything through capitalism because he is never straight up.
- cognitive mapping
- disjunction
- simulacra
- semiautonomy - capitalism has replaced self-governance.
"It also suggests that some of our most cherished and time-honoured radical conceptions about the nature of cultural politics may thereby find themselves outmoded" (430).
Jameson says a lot of things that all the previous theorists are talking about. This is a terrible blog post. I feel that I am re-reading Jameson and I am understanding it but I don't know how to talk about it. Jameson uses the spheres quite often like Appaduri was using when we read him. I am excited to hear about space and how ideologically it affects us or is us. Also cognitive mapping. Jameson ties in with Appaduri more than I realized.
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