Political category mistakes often stem from transferring aesthetic concepts into politics

Evidence

But we must also disentangle from the social version of group difference (as well as from the philosophical debates on the difference between contradiction and opposition) the reigning aesthetic and psychic (or psychoanalytic) forms of this topic, not least because any number of political category-mistakes can often be identified as illicit transfers from the aesthetic itself). The aesthetics of difference — what is often called textuality or textualization — foregrounds a perceptual modification in the apprehension of postmodern artifacts, which I have characterized, in the opening chapter by way of the slogan of “difference relates”; later on I will offer a further, spatial analysis of this new kind of perception. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 744

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Selectively lifting a single concept from a theory distorts its intended political meaning — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 35; Confusing rulers for the whole society is a political and imaginative error. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 597; Politics disguised as culture becomes insoluble jargon. (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Selectively lifting a single concept from a theory distorts its intended political meaning — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 35; Confusing rulers for the whole society is a political and imaginative error. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 597; Politics disguised as culture becomes insoluble jargon. (+5 more)