Contemporary photographic segmentation may lack existing analytical categories

Evidence

My sense is that the segmentation of contemporary photography does not necessarily operate in the “deconstructive” fashion of the painters, but it may show signs of newer structures for which we as yet lack the right historical and formal categories. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 409

Categorization

• QUESTION: What would those new historical/formal categories be? Reader’s falsifiability project could push on whether an ‘untheorized’ emergent structure is claimable at all.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodern photography replaced image-to-referent matching with internal visual differentiation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 416; Postmodern art severs images from meaning into random nonrelational fragments — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 67; Postmodern theory replaces four inherited depth models with surfaces — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 64
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern photography replaced image-to-referent matching with internal visual differentiation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 416; Postmodern art severs images from meaning into random nonrelational fragments — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 67; Postmodern theory replaces four inherited depth models with surfaces — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 64