Jameson’s postmodern problematic predates his adoption of the term by a decade

Evidence

In his first monograph, Sartre — The Origins of a Style (1961), written in his mid-twenties, he was already writing of ‘a society without a visible future, a society dazzled by the massive permanence of its own institutions in which no change seems possible and the idea of progress is dead’. Ten years later, in Marxism and Form, comparing the enchanted bric-a-brac of surrealism with the commodities of a postindustrial capitalism — ‘products utterly without depth’, whose ‘plastic content is totally incapable of serving as a conductor of psychic energy’ — he asked ‘whether we are not here in the presence of a cultural transformation of signal proportions, a historical break of an unexpectedly absolute kind?’ — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 172

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73; Modernism was named retroactively while postmodernism preceded its practices — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 238

Broader Connections

• The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments #corroborates (0.85) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73
• Modernism was named retroactively while postmodernism preceded its practices #corroborates (0.82) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 238