Market discourse displaces the Marxian model by shifting from production to circulation

Evidence

The force, then, of the concept of the market lies in its “totalizing” structure, as they say nowadays; that is, in its capacity to afford a model of a social totality. It offers another way of displacing the Marxian model: distinct from the now familiar Weberian and post-Weberian shift from economics to politics, from production to power and domination. But the displacement from production to circulation is no less a profound and ideological one, and it has the advantage of replacing the rather antediluvian fantasy representations that accompanied the “domination” model from 1984 and Oriental Despotism all the way to Foucault — narratives rather comical for the new postmodern age — with representations of a wholly different order. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 597

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in offering a model of social totality and how ideology gets displaced, mirrors claims about postmodern ‘cultural dominant’ being non-adoptable/refusable. — connects to: Postmodern political change flows from markets rather than mass struggles — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 273; Mediatized market societies increasingly waste resources producing demand rather than goods — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 172; Under spectacle capitalism, appearing replaced having as the commodity exchanged — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 304 (+7 more)
• DEFINE: Defines what ‘totalizing’ means in context: a model capable of representing the social totality.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern political change flows from markets rather than mass struggles — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 273; Mediatized market societies increasingly waste resources producing demand rather than goods — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 172; Under spectacle capitalism, appearing replaced having as the commodity exchanged — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 304 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating the market as a totalizing concept shifts explanation from production to exchange #corroborates (0.92) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 474
• Claims to supersede Marxism often regress to pre-Marxian humanism dressed in new vocabulary. #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2396