Jameson treats economic factors as internal to aesthetic form rather than external causes.

Evidence

Here the dynamic of finance capital on the ‘plane of substance’ releases a movement of fragmentation on the ‘plane of form’, traceable all the way from the filmic preview to postmodern collages of the commonplace. In each case, the economic referent functions not as an external support, but as an internal element of the aesthetic construction itself. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Jameson’s core move: economic referent function as internal element of aesthetic construction, not external support.