Future of Totality

“This remarkable volume is jam-packed with intellectually thrilling work from many of the leading minds of our moment. In its brilliant and varied examinations of Jameson’s key arguments, concepts, methods, and style, we see the ongoing vitality of Jameson’s work and the amazing and indeed moving affection that so many of our best thinkers have for Jameson as a teacher, mentor, and writer.”—Jonathan Flatley, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago“More playful than pious, these essays are must reads even for people who’ve never heard of Fredric Jameson, if any such people exist.”—Bruce Robbins, author of Who's Allowed to Protest?

• Foreword. Jameson Maestro / Kim Stanley Robinson xiIntroduction. Writing from Jameson / Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud DurÃo, and Robert T. Tally Jr. 1Part I. Theory1. Thresholds of Concept / Sianne Ngai 172. Allegorical Mimesis of the Flowing of All Things: The Search for a Method in Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method / Xudong Zhang 283. Is Jameson’s Theory Althusser’s Philosophy? / Eleanor Kaufman 444. The Spatial Dialectic in Hegel; or, Asymmetries / Andrew Cole 675. The 1960s as a Vanishing Mediator; or, From the Symbolic to the Real in Fredric Jameson / Phillip E. Wegner 87Part II. New Forms6. Totality Desires: Psychoanalytic Dialectics in Jameson and Kiesling / Anna Kornbluh 1137. Jameson, the Jukebox Musical, and the Postmodern Pastiche / Ian Buchanan 1288. Big Marx Energy: Jameson’s TikTok Dialectics / Clint Burnham 1449. Jameson as Blindspot Machine / Eric Cazdyn 160Part III. The Present and the Future10. Late Capitalist Scalings / Kathi Weeks 17911. Unred: Poetics of Protofascism / Alberto Toscano 19012. Utopia as Agility / Gerry Canavan 20513. Toward a New Comparatism: “Third World Literature” Today / Ericka Beckman 221Part IV. Extrapolations14. A Diagnostic Criticism for the Twenty-First Century / Carolyn Lesjak 23915. The Poetics of the Tax-Form / Michael Denning 25716. The Contemporary Third-World Novel: Toward a New Humanity / Aisha Karim 27817. Dialectical Criticism in a Era of Multinational Genocide / Henry Schwarz 298Afterword. Lunch at the Savoy / Richard Dienst 313Contributors 329Index