"A Thousand Unpieced Suns": On Jameson's Postmodernism, with Emmet Penney

Emmet Penney, writer and co-host of ex.haust podcast, joins Outsider Theory to discuss Fredric Jameson's canonical essay "Postmodernism, or the Culltural Logic of Late Capitalism" and its continued relevance, as well as cultural fragmentation, nostalgia, the return of affect, LA architecture, and other themes. More info on my June 10/17 seminar on Jameson's Postmodernism and Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: https://www.speakeasy.com/e/what-is-postmodernism Exhaust podcast: http://exhaust.fireside.fm/ Emmet's essay on "Lectureporn": https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/liberals/lectureporn-the-vulgar-art-of-liberal-narcissism/

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Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects.