Coexisting modes of production must be visible together for totality to be thinkable

Evidence

I will suggest, in a general way, that thinking this particular new thought (or combining older thoughts in this new way) presupposes a particular kind of “uneven” development, such that distinct and coexisting modes of production are registered together in the life world of the thinker in question. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 862

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s attempt at a cognitive map of their own position — what coexisting modes are visible in your own lifeworld? — connects to: Flexible accumulation coexists with entrenched Fordist production rather than replacing it. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1213