... I still consider to be the importance of his theoretical endeavor. Jameson's initial intervention in the postmodern debate, in a 1982 essay `The Politics of Theory', 2 was primarily an attempt to map the ideological landscape of postmodernism, however, the article concluded on a characteristic Jamesonian note, insisting on `the need to grasp the present as history'. Jameson, then, initially seemed to suggest the possibility of a way through the impasse of the two most influential strains of thought emerging at that ... spatiality is differential, confliction and contradictory, the very ...

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