Too Little, Too Late: Reflections on Fredric Jameson's Pedagogy of Form

摘要

This essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates Jameson's pedagogical unconscious, which forms the backdrop for many of his most compelling insights into aesthetic representation. Through a dialectical analysis, the relation between aesthetics and pedagogy is seen as both an advance over certain modes of Marxist pedagogy and also as a retreat from the full examination of pedagogy as a general problem for Marxist theory as such. Thus, the author argues for a renewed emphasis on pedagogy as the most important terrain for rethinking Marxism.