Carolina QuotesSomeone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.
Fredric Jameson Carolinian
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Fredric Jameson, "Future City", New Left Review (May-June 2003)
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- 2003
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