If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then … - Fredric Jameson

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Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Fredric Jameson

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

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

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In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles. . . Contemporary or postmodernist art. . . will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

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

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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

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