Class consciousness operates as an internal map locating each individual relative to other classes
Evidence
Thus a work such as Zola’s Pot-Bouille, in which the various levels of the apartment house correspond to the various social classes, from the wealthy inhabitants of the first floor all the way up to the maids and workers in the garret, is allegorical because class consciousness still functions structurally within the society as such: it is carried within as a kind of map or chart of society as a whole, as a differential feeling whereby I locate myself with respect to the other classes. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 760
Categorization
- DEFINE: Jameson’s working definition of class consciousness as a spatial/differential self-location, not a mere doctrine.
- XREF: connects to: A class’s historical fate registers as an internal felt mood rather than external data — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743; Cognitive mapping is a code word for a new kind of global class consciousness — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 893; Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Cognitive mapping is a code word for a new kind of global class consciousness
#expands(0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 893 - Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details
#qualifies(0.80) - Social being determines consciousness, not the reverse
#corroborates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2495 - The logic of mapping the world is structurally inexhaustible expansion
#expands(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 475