Demographic materialism replaces anthropomorphic history with natural history’s being

Evidence

The materialist reversal inherent in demography falso flips over the rug of this still anthropomorphic history, but substitutes for it not so much statistical aggregates as the sheer being of natural history itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 765

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether this ‘sheer being of natural history’ retains any critical edge or just becomes another representation Jameson himself allows.
• XREF: connects to: Demography constitutes a new form of materialism beyond body or individual — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 765; Marx conceived history as natural history without endorsing Social Darwinist worldview — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1346; Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Demography constitutes a new form of materialism beyond body or individual — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 765; Marx conceived history as natural history without endorsing Social Darwinist worldview — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1346; Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarianism fused liberal naturalism with irrationalism to deify nature against history #complicates (0.73) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 405
• Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal #complicates (0.72) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452