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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: American American Music Been Clothes Culture Down Driven Films Food Forms Globalization Heart Local Make Many Music Out Popular Seen Standardization Television Traditional Very Way World

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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: Behind Best Capacity Capitalism Destructive Exploitation Force Forms Globalization Mode Motor Must Particular Reality Resistance Test Then Transform Various West

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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: Achievement Aid Clause Dominance Effort End Films Foreign Generally Home Made Markets Massive Packages Politically Pushed Second Second World War Secure Since States Treaties United United States Various War World World War Writing

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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

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Topics: Agree Always Being Consider Globalization Interests Moreover Nationalist Resist Thinks Universal Us Wants You

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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: American Bad Cultural Culture Game Global Imperialism Interests Mass Often Playing Power Reassuring Sense Success Us

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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: After Agreements American Binding Countries Cultural Defensive European European Countries Film Forced Form France Imperialism Industries Most National Onto Out Particular Resistance Stands War Were

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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: Capacity Cheaper Corporate Feature Global Labour Locations Markets More National New Operations Overseas Structures Worrying

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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: About Economic Globalization Influence Might Military Power Really Referring Spreading Talk Us

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And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: American Categories Clearly Closed Cultural Culture Domination Down Economic Else Everything Everything Else Fear Industries Level Local Models Now Our Over Process Remaining Replacing Result Rivals Sphere Two Us

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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: Anything Being Chair Current Does Everything Further Idea Individual Little Named Nor Older Point Slowly Universal Universe Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: April 14th, 1934

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