Media representation and the market represent each other while democracy remains unrepresentable

Evidence

The crucial nexus that demands investigation, then, is the way in which the very representation of the media itself manages to represent the market, and vice versa, while “democracy” (not generally in our system represented or indeed representable) steams off of each as a connotation and one of the more recognizable of the thirty-seven flavors. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 758

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the thesis that in postmodernism the media’s self-representation IS the market’s self-representation — a core operating concept for parsing the parody/pastiche and commodification arguments.