Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist best known for analyzing contemporary cultural trends and describing postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under organized capitalism. His interest in Sartre led him to intensely study Marxist literary theory. Jameson's influential article "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" analyzed postmodernism from a dialectical viewpoint, viewing postmodern skepticism towards metanarratives as stemming from intellectual labor conditions in late capitalism.