Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms.

Evidence

The crisis in historicity now dictates a return, in a new way, to the question of temporal organization in general in the postmodern force field, and indeed, to the problem of the form that time, temporality, and the syntagmatic will be able to take in a culture increasingly dominated by space and spatial logic. If, indeed, the subject has lost its capacity actively to extend its protensions and re-tensions across the temporal manifold and to organize its past and future into coherent experience, it becomes difficult enough to see how the cultural productions of such a subject could result in anything but “heaps of fragments” and in a practice of the randomly heterogeneous and fragmentary and the aleatory. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s key idea that aesthetic form is the economy’s way of appearing — spatial dominance produces the fragmentary aesthetic. — connects to: Time-space compression from flexible accumulation generates a crisis of representation in cultural forms — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2035; Art form shifts with the conception of the individual each age produces; Ritualistic, unconscious devices structure literary form and decay with social fragmentation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 144 (+6 more)