Complaints about losing historicity coexist with culture obsessed with dead past styles

Evidence

Yet everything in our culture suggests that we have not, for all that, ceased to be preoccupied by history; indeed, at the very moment in which we complain, as here, of the eclipse of historicity, we also universally diagnose contemporary culture as irredeemably historicist, in the bad sense of an omnipresent and indiscriminate appetite for dead styles and fashions; indeed, for all the styles and fashions of a dead past. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 626

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s goal: the paradox of the cultural-dominant thesis — where historicist appetite and felt loss of history coexist — is the tension worth testing for falsifiability. — connects to: Contemporary cultural objects repress the socio-economic context that past ones merely lost — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 694; Post-2008 culture remains dominated by pre-crash aesthetic forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1595