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The impetus behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time.1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of postmodernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticised theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. It also enables me to return to, what …

… Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). 2 Fredric Jameson, `The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodern Debate', in The Ideologies of Theory, Essays, 1971 - 1986: Vol. 2 The Syntax of History (London: Routledge, 1988). 3 Stuart Hall, unpublished paper delivered at the Raymond Williams Day conference Oxford, 1993. [???] 4 Doreen Massey, `Politics and Space/Time', in New Left Review, no. 196 (1992), pp. 65-84. 5 Peter Osborne, `Modernity is a Qualitative, Not a Chronological Category', in New Left Review, no. 192 (1992), pp. 65 - 84.