Eighties postmodern theory predicted today’s cultural blankness precisely

Evidence

With eerie precision, the aforementioned ideological shifts align with the theoretical predictions in the eighties about postmodernism. In 1987, literary critic Terry Eagleton described postmodernism as “impudently embracing the language of commerce and the commodity,” turning tradition into “irreverent pastiche” and creating “contrived depthlessness.” Philosopher Fredric Jameson argued that these weren’t intentional aesthetic choices but reflected the “cultural logic of late capitalism.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 29

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• XREF: Eagleton and Jameson on postmodernism — connects to the reader’s four-period structure tracing; postmodern prediction is the ancestor of Marx’s omnivore monoculture. — connects to: Modern academic postmodernism grew from 1980s literary deconstruction — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 243; Contemporary culture still relies on an old, inherited image of the future — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2292