History might be generated from the present’s own fantasy projections

Evidence

The last desperate stages of hide-and-seek suggest some final logical closets in which History (unmasked as sheerly spatial in its diachronic costumes) might still be found, despite the grim silence, house-deep, that leads you to conclude it might have smothered to death in its gags. Might it not still be possible, however, to generate history out of the present itself and to endow today’s fantasy projections and wish fulfillments with the force if not of a reality, then at least of what grounds and inaugurates realities, as Heidegger liked to say (stiften). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 801

Categorization

• XREF: Jameson’s move to ‘generate history out of the present itself’ parallels the reader’s stated task of mapping their own cognitive position in the world system; also touches the Heideggerian stiften notion. — connects to: Higher culture’s remembered images point to a future that dissolves the present order. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 290; Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1104; Foundational myths reinterpret the past to justify future political claims. (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Higher culture’s remembered images point to a future that dissolves the present order. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 290; Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1104; Foundational myths reinterpret the past to justify future political claims. (+7 more)