Modernism’s status depends on whether it completed its mission or was interrupted

Evidence

The alternatives would be decideable only by way of the related historical question of whether modernism in fact completed its mission and its project, or was interrupted and remained fundamentally incomplete and unfilled. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 384

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a live historiographical fork: if modernism was interrupted, the ‘postmodern’ may just be modernism’s unfinished business. Relevant to whether the cultural-dominant thesis is falsifiable.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259; Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259; Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #complicates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #complicates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259