Entries Tagged as ‘Theory’

October 16, 2008

A Singular Modernity

I’ve been preparing a short paper for Phil Wegner’s seminar on “Late Modernism” at MSA next month. The seminar’s call is pretty broad (essentially any aspect, theoretical or practical, of late modernism, however defined), but it’s really devoted to Fred Jameson’s work, particularly A Singular Modernity. So I reread the book. Some thoughts, followed by [...]

October 8, 2008

The Allegory Project

Since I’m likely to end up referring on occasion to my previous work, and because everything I’m doing now is connected to it in one way or another, I thought I should put up a brief summary of what it’s about and what conclusions it reached. This is just for the gist—I’ll probably end up [...]