The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure … - Fredric Jameson

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When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

Fredric Jameson

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

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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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