Postmodern cultural productions both express and mystify new global space.

Evidence

As paradoxical as the terms may seem, they may thus, following a classic interpretive option, be read as peculiar new forms of realism (or at least of the mimesis of reality), while at the same time they can equally well be analyzed as so many attempts to distract and divert us from that reality or to disguise its contradictions and resolve them in the guise of various formal mystifications. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 160

Categorization

• XREF: This double reading — realism and mystification at once — supports the reader’s goal of explaining parody/pastiche: pastiche as realistic mimesis of a depthless world. — connects to: Postmodern propaganda techniques now operate internationally across several states — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 676