Furnishes an excerpt addressing Jameson's concepts of the disappearance of the subject, pastiche and the crisis in historicity.

Describes classic Marxist analysis and furnishes background on the core concepts of commodity, class and dialectical thinking.

Offers an excerpt in which Jameson details the symbolic and social horizons, and "the ideology of form."

Explores Saussure's concept of the linguistic "system" and the impossibility of re-uniting the diachronic and synchronic.

Resource page on the renowned theorist offers an extensive bibliography including secondary sources.