"Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which "culture" has become a veritable "second nature.""
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Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.
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