Postmodern hyperspace exceeds the body’s capacity to orient itself

Evidence

So I come finally to my principal point here, that this latest mutation in space — postmodern hyperspace — has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. It may now be suggested that this alarming disjunction point between the body and its built environment — which is to the initial bewilderment of the older modernism as the velocities of spacecraft to those of the automobile — can itself stand as the symbol and analogon of that even sharper dilemma which is the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communicational network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 145

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of ‘postmodern hyperspace’ as spatial mutation surpassing bodily orientation capacities — central to the reader’s task of mapping their own position.
• XREF: The built space as analogon of global network maps directly onto the reader’s attempt to cognitively map their own position in the world system. — connects to: The body grounds a psychic space lacking all ordinary spatial structure.