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Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by St. Cloud State University.
For further context, see "The Jameson Tapes, Side A.”
Cast:
Fredric Jameson was the Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of Critical Theory at Duke University.
Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast.
All music for this season of The American Vandal Podcast comes from the Tennessee-based roots ensemble DownRiver Collective. Most of the tracks come from their most recent EP, Off The Shelf. You can purchase it direct from the band here. It's also available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracks featured in this episode are “Days Don’t Stop” & “As It Was”
Episode Bibliography:
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Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967) [Hopkins UP 40th Anniversary Edition]
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Terry Eagleton, Criticism & Ideology (New Left Books, 1976) [2006 Verso Edition]
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
Lucien Goldmann, The Hidden God (1964) [2016 Verso Edition]
Lucien Goldmann, Towards A Sociology of The Novel (1963) [1975 Tavistock Edition]
Lucien Goldmann, Cultural Creation In Modern Society (1971) [1977 Basil Blackwell Edition]
Lucien Goldmann, The Human Sciences & Philosophy (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
Stephen Heath, “Lessons From Brecht” Screen (Summer 1974)
G. W. F. Hegel, The Science of Logic (1816)
G. W. F. Hegel, Reason In History (1837)
G. W. F. Hegel, Elements of The Philosophy of Right (1820) [1991 Cambridge Edition]
G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative As A Socially Symbolic Act (Cornell UP, 1981)
Fredric Jameson, Marxism & Form (Princeton UP, 1974)
Fredric Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism & Russian Formalism (Princeton UP, 1975)
Fredric Jameson, “Reification & Utopia in Mass Culture” Social Text (Winter 1979)
Fredric Jameson, “Marxism & Historicism” New Literary History (Autumn 1979)
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke UP, 1992)
Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of The Dialectic (Verso, 1990)
Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism & The Consumer Society” [Original Version, 1983], revised and extended version published as first chapter of The Cultural Turn (Verso, 1998)
Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” Social Text (Winter 1979)
Fredric Jameson, Sartre: The Origins of Style (1961) [1984 Columbia UP Edition]
Gaylord C. Leroy, “The Marxism of The Marxist Literary Group” Minnesota Review (Spring 1978)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought [The Savage Mind] (1962) [2021 U. Chicago Edition]
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (1958)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw & The Cooked (1964) [1983 U. Chicago Edition]
George Lichtheim, “The Concept of Ideology” History & Theory (No. 2 1965)
Sylvère Lotringer & David Morris, Schizo-Culture (Semiotext(e), 2014)
George Lucas, Star Wars (1977)
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György Lukács, Soul & Form (1910) [2010 Columbia UP Edition]
György Lukács, The Historical Novel (1937) [1983 University of Nebraska Edition with Introduction by Fredric Jameson]
Colin MacCabe, “Realism & The Cinema: Notes On Some Brechtian Theses” Screen (Summer 1974)
Karl Mannheim, Ideology & Utopia (1929)
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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (1932)
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Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McGraw-Hill, 1964) [2003 Gingko Press Edition]
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François Picavet, Les Idéologues (1891)
Jean-Paul Sartre, “Search For A Method” (1957) in Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1 (1960) [2004 Verso Edition]
Matt Seybold et al, “The Jameson Tapes, Side A” The American Vandal Podcast (August 4, 2025)
Patrick Story, “The Spirit of St. Cloud: A Report” Minnesota Review (Spring 1978)
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Raymond Williams, Marxism & Literature (Oxford UP, 1977)
Raymond Williams, “Base & Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory” New Left Review (Nov-Dec, 1973)
Erik Olin Wright, “Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Societies” New Left Review (July/Aug 1976)
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