Postmodern culture is tactile and operative, not visual and representational

Evidence

The people come to touch, they look as if they were touching, their gaze is only an aspect of tactile manipulation. It is certainly a question of a tactile universe, no longer a visual or discursive one, and the people are directly implicated in a process: to manipulate/to be manipulated, to ventilate/to be ventilated, to circulate/to make circulate, which is no longer of the order of representation, nor of distance, nor of reflection. It is something that is part of panic, and of a world in panic. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 237

Categorization

• XREF: This overturns the usual privileging of the visual in art/culture since the Renaissance — a point frequently set against Debord’s ‘society of the spectacle,’ where the image still dominates. — connects to: Postmodern culture is essentially visual with a slack and flabby linguistic element — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 652; Postmodern image culture operates on imaginary rather than material consumption. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 345; Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259

Broader Connections

• Postmodern culture is essentially visual with a slack and flabby linguistic element #contradicts (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 652
• Postmodern image culture operates on imaginary rather than material consumption. #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 345
• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259