Basic Vocabulary for Jameson's "Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"

Basic Vocabulary for Jameson's "Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"

Terms:

What is it? Define it. Give an example. How is it relevant to analyzing post-1977 SF film?

Inverted millenarianism

Postmodernism

Aesthetic Populism

Depthlessness

Historicity replaced by Historicism

New Emotional Ground Tone: The Euphoria of the Hysterical Sublime

Technology as Representative of Economic World System

Commodification

Disappearance of the Subject

Pastiche (vs. Parody)

Simulacrum

Late Phase Capitalism

Transition from an Age of Production to an Age of Reproduction

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