TV & Film
In this ep of Nightmare Tonight, I'll be unpacking Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious. In the course of analyzing Disco Elysium, I found Jameson's approach to be quite useful and enriching. So, I thought it might be a good idea to do a more thorough primer on his method. References: The Political Unconscious (Lecture by Paul Fry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvp5z0Zbvo Darstellung https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Darstellung Telos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos The Base and Superstructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure Althusser Glossary 1969 https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/althusser/index.htm Transcoding: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803105319847 Greimas Semiotic Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas#/media/File:Es515_semiotic_square.jpg Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm Objectification: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alienation/#Obje The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire