Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness.

Evidence

If, however, one feels that the city space of the 1980s has for all kinds of multiple and overdetermined reasons lost that particular materiality and placeness or situatedness — that is, we no longer feel Santa Monica in this way as a place whose sites stand in determinate relations to the beach or the freeway and so forth — then such exegesis will come to seem misguided or irrelevant. … Not wrong, necessarily, for these structures may be the remnants of an older modernist language subsumed and virtually canceled by the new one, yet persisting feebly and in a pinch decryptable by a bright and stubborn, backward-looking reader and critic. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308

Categorization

• QUESTION: This bears directly on the reader’s falsifiability push: is ‘lost materiality and placeness’ a claim that can be tested against reports of contemporary urban experience, or a tropological assertion?
• XREF: The loss of modernist ‘placeness’ connects to Augé’s non-places and to the cognitive-mapping task the reader wants to attempt — mapping one’s own position in a space that has lost determinate sites. — connects to: Postmodern subjectivity loses active historical consciousness and lives in a perpetual present. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 152; Place-specific haunting opposes the placeless corporate ‘third place’ — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2430; Corporate accumulation turns inhabited places into zoned Nowheres where residence is lost for generations — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 448