Accelerated turnover transforms modernist aesthetics into postmodernist flux

Evidence

Flexible accumulation has been accompanied on the consumption side, therefore, by a much greater attention to quick-changing fashions and the mobilization of all the artifices of need inducement and cultural transformation that this implies. The relatively stable aesthetic of Fordist modernism has given way to all the ferment, instability, and fleeting qualities of a postmodernist aesthetic that celebrates difference, ephemerality, spectacle, fashion, and the commodification of cultural forms. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 940

Categorization

• XREF: This is the load-bearing causal bridge for the reader’s rival-periodization comparison: economic turnover compression directly produces the postmodern aesthetic of ephemerality and spectacle. — connects to: Postwar architectural change is commodification’s next stage, not Modernism’s end — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 588; Postmodern aesthetic practices respond to an environment of image-and-message saturation — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 230; Contemporary aesthetics is slackening representation and dissolving medium (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Capitalist circulation velocity drives cultural immediacy as an aesthetic style #corroborates (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 50
• Contemporary aesthetics is slackening representation and dissolving medium #complicates (0.75)
• Postmodernism elevates modernist aberrations into its dominant cultural logic #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 216