Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Fredric Jameson

Born: April 14, 1934
Died: September 22, 2024 (aged 90)
Bio: Fredric Jameson was an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He was 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)