Academic disciplines adapt opportunistically to crisis topics rather than mirroring reality.

Evidence

A historical examination of the disciplines, for example, undermines their claims to correspond to truth or to the structure of reality, by betraying the opportunistic way in which they swiftly readapt to this or that current hot topic, for them perceived as an immediate problem or crisis (the topic of Postmodernism is just such a crisis). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 700

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s push on falsifiability — the discipline-scanning point is concrete evidence the reader can test with modern examples (e.g., AI ethics as a ‘hot topic’ scramble).
• SEED: Essay angle: how the discipline of ‘postmodernism studies’ itself readapted to crisis topics, proving Jameson’s own point.