Autonomous cultural spheres internally duplicate the social and economic macrocosm’s structures

Evidence

So it is that Western music at the very outset marks itself off from the culture as a whole, reconstitutes itself as a self-contained and autonomous sphere at distance from the everyday social life of the period and developing, as it were, parallel to it. Not only does music thereby acquire an internal history of its own, but it also begins to duplicate on a smaller scale all the structures and levels of the social and economic macrocosm itself, and displays its own internal dialectic, its own producers and consumers, its own infrastructure. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 51

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core Adorno/Benjamin dialectical method — the autonomy of the aesthetic sphere as a miniature reproduction of society, echoing Adorno’s sociology of music and Lukács’s totality. — connects to: Building autonomous objective culture resembles economic takeoff into self-sustaining growth — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 87; Capitalism’s material system is interwoven with cultural reproduction — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 122; Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Shows concretely what dialectical mediation means: the artwork mediates the social whole not by reflecting it but by duplicating its structures internally at a smaller scale.

Broader Connections

• Building autonomous objective culture resembles economic takeoff into self-sustaining growth #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 87
• Capitalism’s material system is interwoven with cultural reproduction #corroborates (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 122
• Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity #complicates (0.70)
• Diasporic cultural forms develop autonomous indigenous locations in the host society #exemplifies (0.70) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 845