Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson: A Bibliography (Eddie Yeghiayan)
Probably the most comprehensive bibliography of information on Jameson available on the web.

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Thought: Fredric Jameson
The University of Colorado at Denver has many useful links to postmodern theorists including Jameson.

Fredric Jameson's Works Available on the Web

Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 (edited by Stanley Haermas and Frank Lentricchia)
This special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly contains the article "The Dialectics of Disaster." It also includes several other interesting essays on September 11 by a variety of interesting literary critics such as Slavoj Zizek and Jean Baudrillard.

Postmodernism and Consumer Society
One of Jameson's foundational essays on postmodernism and late capitalism.

Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts have excerpted several of Jameson's talks he gave at Stanford University between 1998 and 1999.
"Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature"
"The Prison House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism"
"Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"

Writings on September 11, 2001
"The Dialectics of Disaster" presents an extremely negative view of the U.S. media's affected depiction of the collapse of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Has all of the media engaged in the sort of sentimentalizing that Jameson finds so problematic? The following resources contain a variety of articles and web sites which grapple with the same issues Jameson addresses--with varied results.

Information on September 11 and its Aftermath (Julia Liss) A good place to start to research media representations of September 11 and its aftermath.

Links to Activist and Media Responses to September 11
This web site contains a comprehensive list of counter-hegemonic media publications. Included here are links to media watchdog groups like media-monitors, as well as a variety of articles critical of the U.S. popular media's reading of September 11 and, more specifically, the "War on Terrorism."

September 11: Bearing Witness to History
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has developed a digital archive of personal accounts of memories of September 11. On this web site you can post your own story and read those of others throughout the world. You can also virtually visit the exhibition September 11: Bearing Witness to History--on display at the Smithsonian until April 12, 2003.

The New Yorker The New Yorker has catalogued almost all of its writing and art related to September 11 on this page.

Journalism.org Archive on September 11 A helpful clearinghouse of articles on popular media responses to September 11.

Homeland Insecurity (Charles C. Mann) Mann argues tact the media has missed the real crisis created by September 11: the lack of adequate security measures in place throughout our technology dependent society.

We Cry. We Live. We Feel: September 11 (David Edwards)
An interesting counter to Jameson's reading of September 11. Edwards suggests that we shift our focus away from critiquing the media's representation of September 11. Instead, Edwards suggest that there are more insidious problems with the media such as their lack of interest in "collateral damage" of the Taliban's regime and U.S. imperial policies in the Middle East.

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Part One: The Inner World (William Langerwiesche) One of the most lucid accounts of the aftermath of September 11 available. Langerwiesche was one of few media personnel allowed into the collapsed skeleton of the World Trade Center. His three part article is here excerpted on the Atlantic Monthly web site.

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Part Two: The Rush to Recover (William Langerwiesche)

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Part Three: The Dance of the Dinosaurs (William Langerwiesche)

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