Bourgeois postmodern despair is constitutive and casually combined with private pleasures.

Evidence

Despair is now, in this age of late capitalism and in the aftermath of High Modernism, so constitutive a parr of contemporary bourg~ois culture, and it is combined so casually with so many sorts of private pleasures, that one forgets, when one corpes upon such formulations (‘no future’ and all that), how bleak a vision of human possibility this type of thinking signifies. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 610

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The aestheticized self belongs historically to bourgeois private life — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 213; Bourgeois distinction is a performed public suppression of bodily need — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 562; Bourgeois ascendancy turned novelty from by-product into an end pursued for its own sake — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 61 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Damaged happiness mirrors the false whole under capitalism. #corroborates (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 947
• The aestheticized self belongs historically to bourgeois private life #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 213
• Bourgeois distinction is a performed public suppression of bodily need #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 562
• Bourgeois ascendancy turned novelty from by-product into an end pursued for its own sake #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 61