Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself. Fredric Jameson
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  1. The novel is.. the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its daily life). This means.. that the novel is also a vehicle of creative destruction. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Its function, in some properly capitalist ‘cultural...
  2. Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.
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