Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Fredric Jameson
Born: April 14, 1934 (age 90)
Bio: Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends. He once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism.
Known for:
- The Political Unconscious (1981)
- The Antinomies Of Realism (2013)
- A singular modernity (2002)