Jameson periodized postmodernism into a creative seventies phase followed by regression.
Evidence
Just this can be seen from Jameson’s texts since Postmodernism, as the inflexion of his writing on the postmodern has become steadily sharper. For what they trace is, in effect, an involution. Postmodernism, Jameson now suggests, can already be periodized. After its first creative release in the seventies —that ‘thunderous unblocking of energies’, of whose relief he originally wrote72 — there has followed a perceptible regression in the most recent period, delineated in the essays on the ‘End of Art’ and ‘Transformations of the Image’ in The Cultural Turn. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 306
Categorization
- XREF: Jameson’s self-periodization of postmodernism is central to the periodization disputes the reader is studying. — connects to: Jameson grounded postmodernity in identifiable features of multinational capitalism as of the early eighties. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 150; Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301; Jameson’s periodization of postmodernism rests on intuition, not empirical economics — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 497 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The economic and cultural shifts of 1973 crystallized postmodernism as a new landscape
#corroborates(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 29 - Jameson’s periodization of postmodernism rests on intuition, not empirical economics
#complicates(0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 497 - Postmodernism represents the plebeianization of modernist culture
#expands(0.72) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 271