Older aesthetics required concentrating on a single image sequence for organic meaning.

Evidence

The older aesthetic is then practiced by viewers, who, bewildered by this discontinuous variety, decided to concentrate on a single screen, as though the relatively worthless image sequence to be followed there had some organic value in its own right. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 121

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts modern (single-screen, organic coherence) with postmodern (multiple, differential) perception — useful for the parody/pastiche explanatory project.