Everyday metropolitan culture anticipated postmodernism before its intellectual articulation

Evidence

Post modernism, whatever form its intellectualizing might take, has been fundamentally anticipated in the metropolitan cultures … Postmodernism of the last twenty years: among the electronic signifiers of cinema, television and video, in recording studios and record players, in fashion and youth styles, in all those sounds, images and diverse histories that are daily mixed, recycled and ‘scratched’ together on that giant screen which is the contemporary city. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 407

Categorization

• DEFINE: Chambers’ conception positions postmodernism as bottom-up lived culture (mixing, recycling, scratching) rather than a top-down intellectual or economic phenomenon.
• XREF: connects to: High and mass culture interpenetration predates postmodernism by decades — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 570; Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern; Plurality and indeterminacy beliefs long predate the postmodern era — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 69 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern #corroborates (0.82)
• Plurality and indeterminacy beliefs long predate the postmodern era #corroborates (0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 69