Monday, 14 March 2011

The Marxist literary and political theorist Frederic Jameson who wrote in 1991, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, suggests that technology can only be theorised through the category of the sublime. His writings and ideas seem to be more relevant than ever, especially as the relationship between online networking and hand held devices has now crept into the very heart of where political decisions are taking place. Read an interesting paper -part of the online Tate research Journal - by Eugénie Shinkle on the relationship between video games and the 'technological sublime'. Not specifically about Jameson but well worth a read. Here.

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