Even amidst Jameson’s discussions of narratology, which I must admit do not greatly engage me, there are fine observations and formulations which continually emerge, such as the following:

Human time has in late capitalism undergone a kind of structural mutation… Postmodern synchronicity implies…that the multiplication of relationships in the present (sometimes ideologically identified as information) has been accompanied by an inevitable shift of attention from antecedent causal lines in the past to newer notions of system which have all kinds of momentous consequences for theory and philosophy as well as for human practice… But this simply means a new kind of time and not any literal “end of temporality”… The attention-deficit disorders of contemporary postmodern life no doubt bring on new problems with which an older slower world did not have to deal; but they also confront us with remarkable new possibilities, with new kinds of texts and new kinds of philosophical problems (not least in the area of time and temporality) which offer exciting prospects and permit us to avoid repeating and rehashing all the old solutions under the aegis of the canon, perennial philosophy, the tradition, or whatever other ideological label may be affixed to the “eternal human” of the various regressive essentialisms.

(Valences of the Dialectic, 494-495)

This could almost serve as an epigraph to my essay-in-progress on Neveldine/Taylor’s Gamer.