In postmodern capitalism even the hobby gets institutionalized and organized.

Evidence

Under these circumstances, even more marginal and degraded experiences — such as the hobby -are called upon to transmit distant glimpses of what humanly satisfying activities are like, glimpses distorted and amputated by their medium. … In our own (postmodern) period, however, in which the socialization and institutionalization of individual life have intensified beyond any equivalents in an earlier twentieth-century capitalism, we will not be surprised by the paradoxical discovery that the hobby has itself been organized and institutionalized in groups like Oulipo. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 356

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s overall thesis that intensified socialization of life under late capitalism colonizes even marginal private leisure; also echoes Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. — connects to: Modern leisure organizes activity so rigidly that its schema outweighs its content
• QUESTION: Does the hobby’s institutionalization (Oulipo) refute or confirm the waning of the authentic amateur? How would this falsifiability test play out?