Awareness of global scale and the vast human backdrop shaped modernism’s impersonal stylization

Evidence

Few enough thinkers have credited this enlargement of the peopled universe with radical cultural effects, or have, for example, attributed the very stylization and “formidable erosion of contours” of the modern movement itself, as a movement toward a kind of universalism, to just such unresting preoccupation with the surprise of the gulf between each tiny occasion of the daily life and the vast stretches of time and place in which every individual plays his role. … By that I mean the absurdity of any single person’s claim to the importance of his saying: “I love!”…”I suffer!” when one thinks of the background of the billions who have lived and died, who are living and dying, and presumably will live and die. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 766

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project on postmodernism and style-as-economy: this links demographic/global expansion to aesthetic form, a causal chain the reader wants to trace for waning of affect. — connects to: Historiographic contextual self-awareness already defined major Modernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 89; The category Modernism is a heterogeneous portmanteau lacking shared attributes — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 78
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Historiographic contextual self-awareness already defined major Modernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 89; The category Modernism is a heterogeneous portmanteau lacking shared attributes — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 78

Broader Connections

• The category Modernism is a heterogeneous portmanteau lacking shared attributes #complicates (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 78