Fredric Jameson: The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, capitalism, critical theory, cultural production, deterritorialization, marxism, modernism, philosophy, postmodern, postmodernism, theory
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age propelled by finance capital and endless spectacle. Surveying the debates that blazed up around his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and maps out the theoretical positions of postmodernism’s prominent friends and foes.
Publisher Verso, 1998
ISBN 1859841821, 9781859841822
Length 206 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-11-3)
Comment (1)Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory (1970-) [DE, EN, PT, CZ, ES, IT]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, cultural production, cultural theory, culture industry
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno’s magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
German edition
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970
English edition
Editors Gretel Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann
Newly translated, edited, and with a translator’s introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
This translation published 1997 by The Athlone Press Ltd
This edition published 2002 by Continuum
ISBN 0826467571
383 pages
Wikipedia (EN)
Ästhetische Theorie (German, 1970, added on 2013-6-11, PDF)
Aesthetic Theory (English, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, 1997/2002, updated on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Portuguese, trans. Artur Morão, 1993, added on 2013-6-11)
Estetická teorie (Czech, trans. Dušan Prokop, 1997, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Spanish, trans. Jorge Navarro Pérez, 2004, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoria estetica (Italian, trans. Giovanni Matteucci, 2009, added on 2013-6-11)
Jacques Attali: Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977–) [FR, EN, ES, TR]
Filed under book | Tags: · cultural economy, cultural production, music, music history, noise, political economy
“Attali’s essential argument in Noise: The Political Economy of Music is that music, as a cultural form, is intimately tied up in the mode of production in any given society. For Marxist critics, this idea is nothing new. The novelty of Attali’s work is that it reverses the traditional understandings about how revolutions in the mode of production take place.
Attali believes that music has gone through four distinct cultural stages in its history: Sacrificing, Representing, Repeating, and a fourth cultural stage which could roughly be called Post-Repeating. These stages are each linked to a certain “mode of production”; that is to say, each of these stages carries with it a certain set of technologies for producing, recording and disseminating music, and also concomitant cultural structures that allow for music’s transmission and reception.”
French edition
Publisher PUF, Paris, 1977
301 pages
English edition
Translated by Brian Massumi
Foreword by Fredric Jameson
Afterword by Susan McClary
Publisher Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1985
Theory and History of Literature, Volume 16
ISBN 0719014719, 9780719014710
179 pages
Reviews: Edinburgh Review (1986), Dana Polan (SubStance, 1988), Ronald M. Radano (Ethnomusicology, 1989), Steven Shaviro (2005), notbored.org (n.d.), J. Szigeti (2014).
Outline: Theodore Gracyk.
Commentary: Eric Drott (Critical Inquiry, 2015).
Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique (French, 1977, added on 2021-4-11)
Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique (French, new ed., 1977/2001, added on 2013-9-25, updated on 2021-4-11)
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (English, 1985, updated on 2012-7-24)
Ruidos: ensayos sobre economía política de la música (Spanish, trans. Ana María Palos, 1995, updated on 2021-4-11)
Gürültüden müziğe: müziğin ekonomi-politiği üzerine (Turkish, trans. Gülüş Gülcügil Türkmen, 2005/2014, EPUB, added on 2021-4-11)