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No longer/Not yet: Jameson on the need for “big ideas”

November 13, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

The LeftEast interview with the American Marxist cultural theorist Fredric Jameson appeared a few days before the election, and its title — “People are saying ‘this is a new fascism’ and my answer is – not yet!” — has a different resonance now. There’s no indication of when, where, or how the interview was conducted, although some problems with the text suggest it was transcribed from a recording. … [Read more...]

Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and is part of the editorial staff for Jacobin magazine.

From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and in 2004 received the NBCC's award for excellence in reviewing.

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