1989 completed the sixties-era shift to postmodernity

Evidence

This modernity ended, for Buck-Morss, in 1989, with the fall of the Soviet Union; I would argue that 1989 marks the final completion of the shift to postmodernity that began in the sixties. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 963

Categorization

• QUESTION: A periodizing claim of my own worth probing: does the fall of the USSR plausibly complete a cultural shift begun in the sixties?
• XREF: connects to: Rival periodizing terms like globalism and postcolonialism describe no phenomena distinct from postmodernity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 962; Sixties texts are now dated precisely by straddling modern and postmodern paradigms — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 89; Postmodernism’s case rests on a radical break dated to 1960 — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 35 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism’s case rests on a radical break dated to 1960 #qualifies (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 35
• Post-1960s time-space compression makes postmodernity historically distinctive #corroborates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1940
• The economic and cultural shifts of 1973 crystallized postmodernism as a new landscape #contradicts (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 29
• Postmodernism emerged as a response to the revolutionary failure of 1968-76. #complicates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 627
• Postmodernism was named but not theoretically unified by 1981 #corroborates (0.75) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 99