Cyberpunk expresses late capitalism better than Postmodernism proper

Evidence

This is the place to regret the absence from this book of a chapter on cyberpunk, henceforth, for many of us, the supreme literary expression if not of Postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 895

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed a note on cyberpunk’s cognitive mapping function — Gibson’s work as a map of the world system, corroborating the reader’s own cognitive-map project.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s cognitive-mapping goal — Gibson’s cyberpunk as an attempt to render the unrepresentable totality of late capitalism. — connects to: Period labels like Postmodernism mainly serve present-day purposes rather than describing the past. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 125
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Period labels like Postmodernism mainly serve present-day purposes rather than describing the past. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 125