Global population growth itself transforms postmodern cultural experience

Evidence

There are more people now, and that “fact” has implications that transcend mere spatial discomfort and the prospect of the intermittent shortage in luxury goods. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 764

Categorization

• QUESTION: Jameson treats sheer demography as a material determinant of the postmodern — worth probing what mechanism he has in mind.
• XREF: connects to: Global postmodernism presupposes far greater modernization worldwide than modernism did — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 819; Demographic change makes cultural homogeneity permanent and unrecoverable; Migration makes diaspora the paradigmatic postmodern and postcolonial experience. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 769 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Global postmodernism presupposes far greater modernization worldwide than modernism did — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 819; Demographic change makes cultural homogeneity permanent and unrecoverable; Migration makes diaspora the paradigmatic postmodern and postcolonial experience. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 769 (+1 more)