Postmodern science fiction implodes inward to revitalize fragments of simulation

Evidence

In this way, science fiction would no longer be a romantic expansion with all the freedom and naivete that the charm of discovery gave it, but, quite the contrary, it would evolve implosively in the very image of our current conception of the universe, attempting to revitalize, reactualize, requotidianize fragments of simulation, fragments of this universal simulation that have become for us the so-called real world. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 406

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the direction-shift of science fiction under simulation: from expansive projection to implosive requotidianization.
• XREF: connects to: Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9; Only simulacra exist; reality itself is a second-order simulation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 184; Spatial saturation and science fiction’s decline are twin versions of one implosion — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 402 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern science legitimates itself through difference, not maximized performance #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 423
• Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120
• Postmodern genres are artificial systems devised in imitation of natural ones #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331
• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• Postmodern pastiche blurs the present into a timeless simulacral past #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 86
• Postmodernism replaces the autonomous work with the decentered text #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 224
• Twentieth-century serious fiction turned inward toward the psychological #expands (0.75)
• Postmodern fragmentation prevents picturing a radically different future at all #complicates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 364