Defining Postmodernism as internal to Modernism abandons its periodizing claim

Evidence

Postmodernism, I think, went on to abolish something even more fundamental, namely, the distinction between the inside and the outside (all the modernists ever said about that was that the one ought to express the other, which suggests that no one had yet begun to doubt whether you needed to have either of them at all in the first place). The former streets then become so many aisles in a department store, which, if you think about it in Japanese fashion, becomes the model and the emblem, the secret inner structure and the concept, of the postmodern “city,” already, appropriately enough, realized in certain sections of Tokyo. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259 (#expands, via linked claim)

If Rushdie is a postmodernist at all, he is so precisely in the sense that his intellectual and artistic formation is essentially modernist, but there are distinct articulations and emphases in which he clearly exceeds that basic formation. I am reminded here of those passages in Lyotard where he argues that postmodernism is a set of tendencies within Late Modernism itself, which distinguishes itself primarily by celebrating human inability to experience reality as a totality, over and beyond its fragments. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Jencks here, however, shifts his usage of the term from the designations for a cultural dominant or period style to the name for one aesthetic movement among others. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 934 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lash defines postmodernism as imagistic, de-differentiated, and immanent within modernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 111; Lyotard defines postmodernism as a modernism that celebrates the loss of ordered totality; Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259 (+17 more)

Related

• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed (similarity 0.89)
• Commodified modernism collapses the distinction between real and imaginary negation. (similarity 0.85)
• Lyotard defines postmodernism as a modernism that celebrates the loss of ordered totality (similarity 0.85)
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor (similarity 0.84)
• Lyotard redefined the postmodern as a perennial inner renewal of the modern (similarity 0.84)
• Late modern and postmodern architecture differ on allusion to the past (similarity 0.84)
• Postmodernism’s self-definition depends on an inadequate account of what it opposes. (similarity 0.84)
• Defining postmodernism as one movement among others differs from calling it a cultural dominant (similarity 0.84)
• Lash defines postmodernism as imagistic, de-differentiated, and immanent within modernism (similarity 0.84)
• So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism (similarity 0.83)
• Postmodernism is a reflex of capitalism’s modification, not a new social order. (similarity 0.83)
• Postmodernism elevates modernist aberrations into its dominant cultural logic (similarity 0.83)
• Postmodernism’s defining move is proclaiming a radical break in Western civilization (similarity 0.83)
• Locating Postmodernism within Modernism severs its link to stages of social development (similarity 0.82)
• Postmodernism fuses changes in the arts with poststructuralist philosophy (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #exemplifies (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Defining postmodernism as one movement among others differs from calling it a cultural dominant #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 934
• Poststructuralism is essentially a discourse of modernism, not postmodernism #corroborates (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 285
• Postmodernism can only be defined relative to the equally confused term modernism #corroborates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 92
• Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture #complicates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597
• Jencks’ ‘double-coding’ criterion fails because montage already defines Modernism #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 81
• Postwar architectural change is commodification’s next stage, not Modernism’s end #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 588
• The category Modernism is a heterogeneous portmanteau lacking shared attributes #expands (0.70) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 78