An outdated interpretive framework can reveal the postmodern by failing to fit its object
Evidence
But Macrae-Gibson’s book has an even stronger claim on our interest here, owing to the character of its interpretive framework, which remains that of an older high modernism and which can therefore, at crucial conjunctures between description and interpretation, tell us something as revealing about the difference between modernism and Postmodernism as Gehry’s construction itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 290
Categorization
- DEFINE: Uses a modernist interpretation of a postmodern building as a diagnostic instrument for the modernism/postmodernism distinction itself.
- XREF: connects to: Representation makes the new appear predetermined and therefore old; Structural interpretation reads the gaps rather than the unified whole — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1394; People stretch old frameworks to fit new phenomena rather than abandon them (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Representation makes the new appear predetermined and therefore old; Structural interpretation reads the gaps rather than the unified whole — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1394; People stretch old frameworks to fit new phenomena rather than abandon them (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Studying the postmodern inadvertently reveals more about the modern than about postmodernism
#complicates(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 201