Postmodern realism yields only ideological images, never unmediated reality
Evidence
For better or for worse, art does not seem in our society to offer any direct access to reality, any possibility of unmediated representation or of what used to be called realism. For us today, it is generally the case that what looks like realism turns out at best to offer unmediated access only to what we think about reality, to our images and ideological stereotypes about it (as in Doctorow). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 362
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postmodern theory holds that no one escapes culture’s ideological constructions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 228; Realism is naturalized ideology, and today’s realistic was yesterday’s impossible — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 37; Postmodernism abandons ideology critique for cynical reason — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 21 (+14 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern theory holds that no one escapes culture’s ideological constructions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 228; Realism is naturalized ideology, and today’s realistic was yesterday’s impossible — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 37; Postmodernism abandons ideology critique for cynical reason — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 21 (+14 more)
Broader Connections
- Postmodernism theory cannot produce a stable inside-outside position for its own observers
#complicates(0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 197 - Reality never conforms to abstract theoretical schemas.
#complicates(0.75) - Ideology is real practice dislocated from, not fantasy opposed to, reality
#complicates(0.73) - Cynical disbelief masks an unconscious ideological fantasy structuring reality
#complicates(0.72) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 30 - Capitalist realism falls only to internal inconsistency, not moral critique
#complicates(0.72) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 36