Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself

Evidence

Classical psychic fragmentation — for example, the separation of imagination and knowledge -was always a consequence of the division of labor in the social world; now, however, it is the very rational or knowledge functions of the mind which become somehow internally segmented and assigned to different floors and different office buildings. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789

Categorization

• XREF: Ties the historical shift to the reader’s cognitive-map goal: how economic structure produces cognitive form. Also connects to Marxian base-superstructure causality the reader flagged as key. — connects to: Schiller transferred the division of labor from classes to the inner mind — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 182; Ritualistic, unconscious devices structure literary form and decay with social fragmentation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 144; Cognitive capitalism blurs the work-play divide by investing in minds and social relations — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 366 (+5 more)
• SEED: The image of mental functions ‘assigned to different office buildings’ is a vivid metaphor for an essay on how platform-era attention is compartmentalized by interface design.