to the hive with it
1) Who said the bit about the unequal distribution of modernity? It was Jameson, right? Where did he say it?
2) Why can’t I find this myself? I’ve encountered that ol’ chessnut a hundred times this year at least…..
3) Or did I dream it? Is it (according a tale that goes around early-stage grad programs sometimes) the book I was always meant to write??? The Unequal Distribution of Modernity by Ads W. Products. Good title!
Yes, you dreamt it. Modernity is actually distrbuted equally; I have as much as you do.
fail
23 Jul 08 at 2:19 pm
I don’t disagree with you about modernity. I think. I’m just wondering if FJ or someone else said something like that. I think someone did once.
Writing, you see.
adswithoutproducts
23 Jul 08 at 2:21 pm
I think Jameson has written about the “uneven development of modernity”. But that may be something else entirely.
Anton
23 Jul 08 at 2:23 pm
Jameson has written in various places that, pace Habermas, all periods are characterized by incomplete transitions in modes of production (this comes up in Political Unconscious, e.g.). In A Singular Modernity he’s more particular about modernity’s incomplete transitions; I’m guessing this is what your dream was trying to recall, though I can’t honestly recall him using the exact (and fine) phrase, “the unequal distribution of modernity.”
jane
23 Jul 08 at 2:50 pm
perhaps:
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” - William Gibson
Dave
23 Jul 08 at 6:01 pm
Jameson most likely (and Gibson possibly) nicked it from Trotsky’s theory of combined and uneven development.
Owen
23 Jul 08 at 6:50 pm