Before doing so, however, it is worth considering the book's place in what is somewhat elusively alluded to in the book as an ongoing project entitled The Poetics of Social Forms. A Singular Modernity, originally published in 2002, has recently been re-published by Verso as part of its seventh Radical Thinkers series, and offers the opportunity to re-evaluate not only the durability of Jameson's postmodern hypothesis, but also the relevance of the postmodern debate of the 1980s and 1990s to our own time. Jameson's theorisation of postmodernism as the lived experience of late capitalism - of the time of a ‘perpetual present’ - has had enormously far-reaching ramifications, opening up the critical ground for the study of the late twentieth century from film studies to philosophy. Arguably, however, Jameson is most well-known for the publication (originally in essay form) of Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke University Press, 1991). Fredric Jameson, now 78, is undoubtedly the leading Marxist critic in North America, and has carried this mantle since at least the publication of The Political Unconscious in 1981.
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