> Yoshie quoted Jameson trying unimaginatively to imagine the "unimaginable"
> as "_gossip_":
Unimaginative? Have you ever read Proust? Deeply subversive, radical stuff, powerfully resistant to monopoly capitalism, just like the other great progressive modernisms, from Brecht to Chaplin. Proust constructs a world of use-values, utterly antagonistic to the Wilsonian ideologies of the 1910-20 era, and thus cancels out his own class habitus (the wealthy rentier) by means of a revolution in aesthetic form. In the midst of the tangled undergrowth of bourgeois art-forms, Proust glimpses a radically proletarian utopia: the freedom to harvest the fruits of one's own labor.
-- Dennis