Postmodern fragmentation prevents picturing a radically different future at all

Evidence

But postmodernism typically strips away that possibility by concentrating upon the schizophrenic circumstances induced by fragmentation and all those instabilities (including those of language) that prevent us even picturing coherently, let alone devising strategies to produce, some radically different future. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 364

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core concern: how this economic-periodization rival account grounds postmodernism’s political paralysis in its subjectivity. — connects to: Postmodern science fiction implodes inward to revitalize fragments of simulation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 406; The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 25; The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 77 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The postmodern concept cannot be disproved because its voices are radically separated #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 799
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #complicates (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 77
• Postmodernism theory cannot produce a stable inside-outside position for its own observers #corroborates (0.74)
• Modernism pursues the New substantively while postmodernism only clocks variations #corroborates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8