Aesthetic failure at representing sense data reveals the referent realism cannot

Evidence

The stereotype is what is already preconsumed, aesthetically prepared for consumption, whereas the palpable struggle to get sense data into sentences leaves a residue in its failure, lets you sense the presence of the referent outside the closed door. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 361

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts the preconsumed stereotype against the failed struggle to render the real — a key mechanism for how art touches the referent.
• XREF: connects to: Comprehending the interrelation of experienced facts shatters false realism — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 801