Postindustrial capitalism severs the continuity with the past that genetic criticism relied on

Evidence

Present-day Western culture, however, no longer lends itself to such a polemical restructuration. For one thing, I doubt if there are many people left who feel that there is much either in our art or in our society itself—at least in the extreme that it has reached in the United States today—which is worth salvaging in this fashion. For another, the continuity between the present and the historical and prehistoric past on which such a demonstration depended seems to have been definitively sundered by the new modes of production and organization of postindustrial capitalism. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 24

Categorization

• XREF: This is Jameson diagnosing exactly why the Frankfurt School’s method must supersede the 1930s genetic Marxist criticism — the core of the reader’s stated interest in Jameson’s lineage. — connects to: Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674; Older Marxist criticism was rhetorically genetic, tracing capitalist origins. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 165; Capitalism depends on moral capital from the very traditions it displaced — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 529 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674
• Older Marxist criticism was rhetorically genetic, tracing capitalist origins. #contradicts (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 165
• Contemporary cultural objects repress the socio-economic context that past ones merely lost #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 694
• Capitalism depends on moral capital from the very traditions it displaced #qualifies (0.75) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 529