Genuine experience resists definition and is only negatively describable against routine emptiness.

Evidence

The terms in which the socio-economic dimension of experience are described are however by no means limited to those of work, as the production of value and the transformation of the world. Indeed the essential content of such experience can never be determined in advance, and varies from the most substantial kinds of grappling with the world to the smallest and most minute specialized perceptions. Such authenticity is indeed more easily described in a negative way, as being that which escapes the emptiness of routine existence, or of some dull marking time: it is therefore that which restores us to some fitful contact with genuine experience, and the form which such contact takes is at one with the historical possibilities of the socio-economic organization itself. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 776

Categorization

• XREF: The negative definition of authenticity (what escapes routine) recalls Adorno’s negative dialectics and Sartre’s notion of situation, both anchors of the reader’s Frankfurt lineage. — connects to: Authenticity is a socially constructed ideal defined only against what it is not. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 651; Authenticity is only definable against the inauthenticity it struggles against, not as a state — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 545; The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 576 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Authenticity is only definable against the inauthenticity it struggles against, not as a state #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 545
• Authenticity is a socially constructed ideal defined only against what it is not. #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 651
• The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 576