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215 Notes preface 1. Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), 306. 2. Adam Roberts, Fredric Jameson (New York: Routledge, 2000), 152. 3. Colin MacCabe, preface to The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System, by Fredric Jameson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), ix. 4. Ian Buchanan, Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (New York: Continuum, 2006), 1. 5. For a discussion of Jameson’s pedagogical strategies, see Fredric Jameson, “Marxism and Teaching,” New Political Science 1, no. 2/3 (1979–80): 31–6; and Christopher Wise, “The Case for Jameson, or, Towards a Marxian Pedagogy of World Literature,” College Literature 21 (1994): 173–89. 6. For further information on the Holberg, see “Holberg Prisen,” http://www .holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-international-memorial-prize.html (accessed April 17, 2013); and for the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement, see MLA Newsletter 43, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 1. 7. In addition to the works by Roberts, MacCabe, and Buchanan cited above, also see Clint Burnham, The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995); Christopher Wise, The Marxian Hermeneutics of Fredric Jameson (New York: Peter Lang, 1995); Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism (New York: Routledge, 1998); Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity (New York: Verso, 1998); Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks, introduction to The Jameson Reader, by Fredric Jameson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 2–29; Steven Helmling , The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson: Writing, the Sublime, and the Dialectic of Critique (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001); and the essays collected in Douglas Kellner and Sean Homer, eds., Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader (New York: Palgrave, 2004), and Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan, eds., On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006). 8. Louis O. Mink, Mind, History, and Dialectic: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987), 2. In a 2011 inteview, Jameson talks about the key influence of Collingwood on his formation : “I was convinced at a very early point that what was very interesting about philosophy, really interesting in a certain contemporary philosophy, was the idea of question and response, problem and situation. The first thinker I identified with this, that I learned this from, was not Hans-Georg Gadamer but long before Gadamer, R. G. Collingwood, a very unusual English philosopher, who saw all philosophy not as a set of concepts but as a set of responses to situations, and his idea was that you could never really understand a philosophical concept in the abstract, you had to reconstruct the problem from which it sprang or the situation from which it emerged and in which it tried to intervene.” Maria Elsa Cevasco, “Imagining a Space That Is Outside: An Interview with Fredric Jameson,” Minnesota Review 78 (2012): 90. 9. Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic (New York: Verso, 2009), 15. 10. Mink, Mind, History, and Dialectic, 3. 11. I give an overview, confirmed by Jameson, of the complete schema for the The Poetics of Social Forms in the final chapter’s discussion of Archaeologies of the Future. 12. The distinction between fabula and sujet is drawn from Russian Formalism . For Jameson’s most extensive discussion of Russian Formalism, especially in terms of the movement’s treatment of narrative, see The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (Prince­ ton: Princeton University Press, 1972), 43–98. 13. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), 13. 14. Fredric Jameson, “Foreword to A. J. Greimas’ On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory,” in The Ideologies of Theory (New York: Verso, 2008), 523 and 534. 15. Jameson, The Prison-House of Language, 62. 16. Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 13; Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic , 484. 17. Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic, 486. 18. Fredric Jameson, Introduction to The Ideologies of Theory, Essays 1971– 1986, vol. 1, Situations of Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), xxviii. 19. Fredric Jameson, “Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan,” in The Ideologies of Theory, Essays 1971–1986, vol. 1, 115. 20. Fredric Jameson, The Modernist Papers (New York: Verso, 2007), xi. 21. Bruno Bosteels, Badiou and Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), 251. 216 ❘ Notes to Pages xvii–xix 22. See Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994); Slavoj Ži...