(born 1934) One of America’s most prominent leftist intellectuals and cultural critics. Most widely cited for his 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, which situated him as the leading theorist on postmodernism as a cultural condition and an aesthetic style undertaken by visual artists and writers. The term that Jameson used as being indicative of postmodernism was “pastiche.” Jameson teaches at Duke University and is an editor of the controversial journal Social Text. He has written fourteen influential books in literary film and cultural studies.