Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson | "An American Utopia: Fredric Jameson in Conversation with Stanley Aronowitz" (2014)

Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson
Early Jameson: Film & Theory at the Limits of Culture

Screenings begin at 11:30 AM | Free and open to the public | RSVP @ tania.rispoli@duke.edu | Lunch starts at 11 AM

Hosted by the graduate seminar Early Jameson taught by Ranjana Khanna, this screening series invites the public to engage with film and video works that reflect, refract, and challenge key themes in the intellectual and political trajectory of Fredric Jameson-from Marxism and psychoanalysis to postmodernism, media, and utopia. Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion.
Join us in exploring how Jameson's thinking continues to provoke new questions about ideology, cultural production, and the very possibility of critique today.

This series is part of the Future of Critical Thought.

An American Utopia
Public address by Fredric Jameson | In conversation with Stanley Aronowitz
Originally delivered at the CUNY Graduate Center, this filmed address features Jameson reconsidering the utopian tradition and its contemporary political function. In dialogue with cultural critic Stanley Aronowitz, he questions the conditions of possibility for utopian thought under late capitalism-and how it might shape new imaginaries of culture, politics, and collective life.