Aesthetic modernism in Kafka required archaic survivals alongside modernizing economy.

Evidence

It is then, in Kafka as elsewhere, the peculiar overlap of future and past, in this case, the resistance of archaic feudal structures to irresistible modernizing tendencies — of tendential organization and the residual survival of the not yet “modern” in some other sense — that is the condition of possibility for high modernism as such, and for its production of aesthetic forms and messages that may no longer have anything to do with the unevenness from which it alone springs. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 674

Categorization

• QUESTION: If high modernism arises from uneven development, what unevenness does postmodernism arise from — or does it arise differently, since the reader wants to test falsifiability of the cultural-dominant thesis?