FREDRIC JAMESON'S POSTMODERNIST NEO-MARXISM

Neo-Liberalism and the Relevance of Marxism in Southern Africa:

Sociological Marxism

From the middle of the 19 century until the last decade of the 20, the Marxist tradition provided the most systematic body of ideas and social theory for radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order. Even those critics of capitalism who did not directly identify with Marxism relied heavily on Marxist ideas about class, exploitation, commodification, the state, ideology. ...

In Memoriam: Fredric S. Fay

Fred Fay died unexpectedly at 53 years of age while working with colleagues in Germany. Fred spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he had been one of the founding faculty members. His biological interests were the contractile mechanisms of smooth muscle and chemotaxis, but Fred’s greatest enthusiasm was for instrumentation. Fred invented new ways to se...

Marxism and Method

Postmodernist Study of the Internet

The point of departure is that the activities associated with the Internet are organizational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such they can profit from sociological theories such as postmodemism. Postmodemism can be seen as a reaction to some signal failures of modernism and the modernity project. It is very much a socio-cultural and philosophical syst...