Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

-      Postmodernism theorizes its own condition of possibility,  looking for breaks rather than new worlds

-      Benjamin calls postmodernism ‘distracted’

-      Jameson writes two things about PM: the theory is imperfect (everything significant about the disappearance of master narratives has itself to be couched in narrative form) and the way in which any observation about the present can be mobilized in the search for the present itself and pressed into service as a symptom and an index of deeper logicof the PM, which imperceptibly turns into its own theory and the theory itself.