Unpacking Jameson's Political Unconscious, Pt. 1 | Nightmare Tonight

Unpacking Jameson's Political Unconscious, Pt. 1 | Nightmare Tonight

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In this ep of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be unpacking Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious. In the course of analyzing Disco Elysium, I found Jameson's approach to be quite useful and enriching. So, I thought it might be a good idea to do a more thorough primer on his method.

References:

The Political Unconscious (Lecture by Paul Fry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvp5z0Zbvo

Darstellung
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Darstellung

Telos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos

The Base and Superstructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure

Althusser Glossary 1969
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/althusser/index.htm

Transcoding:
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803105319847

Greimas Semiotic Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas#/media/File:Es515_semiotic_square.jpg

Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm

Objectification:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alienation/#Obje

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire



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