Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements

Evidence

If we look at Postmodernism, what we find are unforgettable etchings of the quality of life in this historical form, with ‘its internal quotient of misery and the determinate potentiality of bodily and spiritual transfiguration it also affords, or conquers’. But of calibration of the ‘political effects of cultural movements’, there is significantly less. The New Social Movements do figure, as a now standard topos, in Jameson’s survey of the postmodern, where they are viewed with sympathy, but also a wary caution against inflated claims made on their behalf. But their invocation is without detail or differentiation, perhaps because they are not in the first instance — as their name implies — cultural movements stricto sensu at all. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the distinction between ‘monitoring’ and ‘adjudicating’ culture that carries through the whole chapter and echoes Anderson’s charge that the aesthetic/economic pairing forecloses the political. — connects to: Jameson’s three-fold stance divides taste, analysis, and political evaluation of art — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 300; Calling new social movements postmodern is a tautology without critical force; The account of postmodernism originally lacked any social agency — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 24 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The account of postmodernism originally lacked any social agency #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 24
• Calling new social movements postmodern is a tautology without critical force #expands (0.82)
• Defining postmodernism as one movement among others differs from calling it a cultural dominant #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 934
• Social movements and historical conjunctures generate theoretical moments rather than merely consuming them #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251
• Jameson periodized postmodernism into a creative seventies phase followed by regression. #qualifies (0.80) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 306
• A critique of modernity that stays within modernity’s framework only reinforces it #responds-to (0.80)
• The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments #qualifies (0.78) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73
• Academic critique of cultural politics dismissed it as a substitute for practical politics #responds-to (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2643
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597
• Postmodernism theory cannot produce a stable inside-outside position for its own observers #expands (0.75)