Individual subjects are inserted into discontinuous realities from private life to global capital
Evidence
I take such spatial peculiarities of Postmodernism as symptoms and expressions of a new and historically original dilemma, one that involves our insertion as individual subjects into a multidimensional set of radically discontinuous realities, whose frames range from the still surviving spaces of bourgeois private life all the way to the unimaginable decentering of global capital itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 884
Categorization
- SEED: Directly supports the reader’s goal of a cognitive map of their own position between private life and global capital — the ‘multidimensional set of radically discontinuous realities’ is the coordinates they’d plot.
- XREF: connects to: International money homogenizes social life into an undifferentiated present — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1994; Globalised capital has colonised the depths that Freud called the unconscious. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 531