American postmodernism assumes inevitable unopposable cultural trends we must accept

Evidence

I think the label “postmodernism,” especially in its American appropriation (and it is about how the world dreams itself to be “American”), carries two additional charges: it not only points to how things are going in modern culture, but it says, first, that there is nothing else of any significance—no contradictory forces, and no counter-tendencies; and second, that these changes are terrific, and all we have to do is to reconcile ourselves to them. It is, in my view, being deployed in an essentialist and uncritical way. And it is irrevocably Euroor Western-centric in its whole episteme. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 715

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how a left hemisphere of analysis turns into celebration when the object is America’s cultural dominance.
• XREF: connects to: Popular modernism was eclipsed by heritage kitsch and US corporate culture — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 502; Postmodernism’s American success is a paradox because the concept is devastating to American culture; Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 597 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Popular modernism was eclipsed by heritage kitsch and US corporate culture — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 502; Postmodernism’s American success is a paradox because the concept is devastating to American culture; Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 597 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernist celebration masks Parisian intellectual disillusionment with American culture #complicates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 715
• Postmodernism’s American success is a paradox because the concept is devastating to American culture #complicates (0.75)
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture #complicates (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597