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Julian Murphet, Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, University of Adelaide

Fredric Jameson, the world’s greatest Marxist critic, is dead – long live Utopia!

Fredric Jameson, Sao Paulo, January 2000. Fronteiras do Pensamento, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

There are writers and critics, theorists and gurus. And then there is Fredric Jameson. Or there was. Because on September 22, at the age of 90, undimmed and over-productive as ever (three books in 2024 alone!), Jameson passed quietly away.

Over the course of his long and influential career, Jameson published 34 books and hundreds of articles. Along with his legendary conference interventions, they attest to perhaps the single most generous and sustained act of attention to cultural forms in human history.

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