Post-punk’s conceptual-cultural richness was a brief historical contingency

Evidence

This suggests the need for an analysis which, like Anderson’s geneaology of Modernism (see chapter 2), seeks to isolate the historical conjuncture in which all the talk about a postmodern era began. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597 (#expands, via linked claim)

I want to hold to the notion, implicit in both these examples, that movements provoke theoretical moments. And historical conjunctures insist on theories: they are real moments in the evolution of theory. But here I have to stop and retrace my steps. Because I think you could hear, once again, in what I’m saying a kind of invocation of a simple-minded anti-theoretical populism, which does not respect and acknowledge the crucial importance, at each point in the moves I’m trying to renarrativize, of what I would call the necessary delay or detour through theory. I want to talk about that “necessary detour” for a moment. What decentered and dislocated the settled path of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies certainly, and British Cultural Studies to some extent in general, is what is sometimes called “the linguistic turn”: the discovery of discursivity, of textuality. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Jencks here, however, shifts his usage of the term from the designations for a cultural dominant or period style to the name for one aesthetic movement among others. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 934 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-punk’s critical stance is not repressed but made unthinkable by late capitalist pop culture. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1006; British post-punk largely erased America from its pop imagination — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1013; Social movements and historical conjunctures generate theoretical moments rather than merely consuming them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Social movements and historical conjunctures generate theoretical moments rather than merely consuming them #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597
• Defining postmodernism as one movement among others differs from calling it a cultural dominant #contradicts (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 934