Poirier and Venturi merged at the level of method despite opposite stances on modernism

Evidence

The contrast between Poirier’s position here and Venturi et al.’s contemporaneous, polemically pro-postmodern, antimodernist position in Learning from Las Vegas could not be more stark, and yet their projects, of ”learning from” popular culture while situating it powerfully in relation to the history of what we now consider high culture, overlap to a very great extent. The difference is precisely the difference the sixties made, in the evolution of its democratizing, egalitarian, populist projects, between the modern and the postmodern. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 664

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to book’s earlier treatment of Venturi et al. in the Learning from Las Vegas chapters (per book_so_far ch 12-14 mention of Las Vegas). — connects to: Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139; Modernism was named retroactively while postmodernism preceded its practices — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 238 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #corroborates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139
• Modernism was named retroactively while postmodernism preceded its practices #corroborates (0.70) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 238
• Postmodernism can only be defined relative to the equally confused term modernism #corroborates (0.70) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 92
• Postmodernism precedes and enables modernism rather than following it. #corroborates (0.70) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 502
• Modernism pursues the New substantively while postmodernism only clocks variations #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8