Fredric Jameson's "Reification and Utopia" starts with a summary and debate of the traditional critical attitudes towards the social functions of art in general and popular culture in particular. The central line of Jameson's review is the notion of the commodification of culture and art and the reification of human experiences which are turned into consumer products. Reification according to Jameson means that human experiences and practices are transformed into consumable objects that can be measured in light of their function and end, and of course money. By this perspective in was customary, in the Marxist tradition, to view popular culture as art which has turned into a consumer product with high-art being the antithetical autonomous aesthetic form. But Jameson doesn't subscribe to the traditional Marxist notions about high and popular culture. He offers a view of modern cultural production is being structured in an historical context through the dialectical opposition of high and popular, with the products of both being reactions the works of late capitalism.
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Citation: Frederic Jameson Reification and utopia in mass culture. In this influential article, Jameson aims to complicate the traditional notions of mass or popular culture and high culture.
Traditionally the two spheres are defined in opposition to each other and generally attributed to either popularity or elitism. Jameson reworks this definition through the help of thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School and the Marxist theory of reification.
He writes:. Other ways Jameson rethinks this opposition is through the various ways culture is commodified and instrumentalized. Jameson then goes on to point to various cultural works that have interpenetrated high and low culture. He also references several theoreticians who have paved the way for this type of thinking that moves beyond the Frankfurt School and their limited modes of analysis and critique.
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Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture
Access options available:. Signatures ofthe Visible. New York: Routledge, Marxist critic and literary theorist Fredric Jameson has collected eight ofhis own "occasional essays" to give us a stimulating book about film. Published between and in such journals as Social Text and Critical Inquiry, these critical analyses deal not only with film styles from realism to modernism to postmodernism but also with films in their broader cultural contexts, as expressions of high or mass culture and of socio-political history. The essays reflect Jameson's conviction that community and class ties should supersede individualism; and that a Blochian, hopeful Utopia is worth aiming for. Unlike Jean-Paul Sartre or Walter Benjamin, whose works serve as models for Jameson, his cultural criticism is not pessimistic.
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Reification and utopia in mass culture
Citation: Frederic Jameson Reification and utopia in mass culture. In this influential article, Jameson aims to complicate the traditional notions of mass or popular culture and high culture. Traditionally the two spheres are defined in opposition to each other and generally attributed to either popularity or elitism. Jameson reworks this definition through the help of thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School and the Marxist theory of reification. He writes:. Other ways Jameson rethinks this opposition is through the various ways culture is commodified and instrumentalized. Jameson then goes on to point to various cultural works that have interpenetrated high and low culture.
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Skip to search form Skip to main content You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI: The theory of mass culture--or mass audience culture, commercial culture, "popular" culture, the culture industry, as it is variously known--has always tended to define its object against so-called high culture without reflecting on the objective status of this opposition.