Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them
Evidence
The new modes of perception seem indeed to operate by way of the simultaneous preservation of just such incompatibles, a kind of incommensurability-vision that does not pull the eyes back into focus but provisionally entertains the tension of their multiple coordinates (so that, if you thought the dialectic had to do with producing new “syntheses” of various preformed and prearranged “opposites” calculated to fit together effortlessly, then to be sure all this would be decidedly “postdialectical”). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘difference relates’ perception as an incommensurability-vision that never resolves into synthesis — a precise mechanism for the reader to contrast with dialectical reading.
- XREF: connects to: Perceptual unity arises from purposive traversal rather than passive observation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1359; Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1255; Perceptual ambiguity is a necessary, unwilled structure of embodied existence. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 67 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Perceptual unity arises from purposive traversal rather than passive observation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1359; Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1255; Perceptual ambiguity is a necessary, unwilled structure of embodied existence. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 67 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism.
#complicates(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 353