Postmodern culture criticism targets left phenomena, creating a false impression of their culpability

Evidence

Meanwhile, another limitation of my own work on the subject (as formulated in the opening chapter of this book) now becomes clear; namely, that the tactical decision to stage the account in cultural terms has made for a relative absence of any identification of properly postmodern “ideologies,” something I have tried partially to rectify in the subsequent chapter on the ideology of the market. But since I have been particularly interested in the formal matter of the new “theoretical discourse,” and also because the paradoxical combination of global decentralization and small-group institutionalization has come to seem an important feature of the postmodern tendential structure, I have mainly singled out intellectual and social phenomena like “poststructuralism” and the “new social movements,” thus giving the impression, against my own deepest political convictions, that all the “enemies” were on the left. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 871

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Given the reader wants to test falsifiability of the cultural-dominant thesis, Jameson’s own admitted blind spot (right-wing postmodernity unexamined) is worth chasing further.
  • XREF: connects to: Postmodernism theory cannot produce a stable inside-outside position for its own observers — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 197; Postmodern discourse makes all cultural positions secretly political, except the overtly political — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 196
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodernism theory cannot produce a stable inside-outside position for its own observers — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 197; Postmodern discourse makes all cultural positions secretly political, except the overtly political — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 196