Fredric Jameson

1934-. American literary critic and Marxist thinker.

Notable book: Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), in which he analyses postmodernism as a cultural manifestation of the late capitalist mode of production. Due to the close connection between the two phenomena, Jameson argues that "every position on postmodernism in culture [...] is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today" (ch. 1).