Elsewhere and Otherwise

Abstract This text introduces the symposium on Fredric Jameson’s Allegory and Ideology (2019), second volume in his six-part The Poetics of Social Forms . It frames debate with a brief exploration some figures problems allegory that appear across œuvre , surveys Marxist conceptualisations have shaped approach, as it straddles allegories commodity utopia. musical investigation nexus affect, presentation political primarily concerned disjunction between (national international) levels are also touched upon salient dimensions theorising.