Hassan repudiated postmodernism by 1987 as kitsch and frivolous

Evidence

When he came to write the introduction to his collected texts on the topic, The Postmodern Turn in 1987, he made it clear the title was also a kind of farewell: ‘Postmodernism itself has changed, taken, as I see it, the wrong turn. Caught between ideological truculence and demystifying nugacity, caught in its own kitsch, postmodernism has become a kind of eclectic raillery, the refined prurience of our borrowed pleasures and trivial disbeliefs’. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 57

Categorization

• CANDY: A founding theorist denouncing his own movement as ‘eclectic raillery’ is a quotable, near-paradoxical moment