Collage and montage serve as the primary form of postmodern discourse.

Evidence

Derrida considers, therefore, collage/montage as the primary form of postmodern discourse. The inherent heterogeneity of that (be it in painting, writing, architecture) stimulates us, the receivers of the text or image, ‘to produce a signification which could be neither univocal nor stable.’ Both producers and consumers of ‘texts’ (cultural artefacts) participate in the production of significations and meanings (hence Hassan’s emphasis upon ‘process,’ ‘performance,’ ‘happening,’ and ‘participation’ in the postmodernist style). — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 346

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Derridean thesis that collage/montage is postmodernism’s primary formal device across media.
• XREF: Connects to Jameson’s treatment of pastiche and the fragmentation of the postmodern subject — the reader is explicitly comparing rival periodization accounts. — connects to: Postmodern art operates within media systems rather than unifying them into transcendent wholes — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 381; Postmodernity is defined by the delegitimation of metanarratives — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 65; Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern montage delegitimizes conceptual transcendence in favor of immanence #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 437
• Postmodern art operates within media systems rather than unifying them into transcendent wholes #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 381
• Postmodern social representation demands an interposed media term as its placeholder. #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 891
• Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity #corroborates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120
• Postmodernity is defined by the delegitimation of metanarratives #corroborates (0.75) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 65
• Avant-garde art communicates by breaking the propositional structure of discourse itself #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 313