THE VIOLENCE OF ABSTRACTION: Fredric Jameson, the "Asiatic Mode," and the Problem of Asia.
This forum introduction revisits Fredric Jameson’s engagement with Asia by focusing on a central tension in his work: the productive power of his world-historical method and the limitations of its reliance on the typological figure of the "Asiatic mode of production." Rather than treating this tensi...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 50; pp. 75 - 88 |
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